https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/trophy-hunt-cites-iucn-conservatio
n-force-african-elephant-lion-giraffe-leopard-a8937491.html

Exclusive: Organisation has been heavily involved in Cites and IUCN for up
to 20 years, winning campaigns to allow African lions and other species to
still be killed

• Jane Dalton @JournoJane
1 June 2019

Trophy hunters, often from the US, pay large sums of money to shoot wildlife
in Africa ( Getty )

A hunting group that says members are conservationists has wielded excessive
influence over the world’s key wildlife watchdogs, Cites and the IUCN, a
report claims.

Conservation Force (CF), which is run by a veteran hunter who once said
“nothing else in life is more satisfying than an elephant hunt”, has argued
successfully for protections for endangered species to be rolled back and
has blocked measures that would curb “sport hunting”, the Campaign to
Ban Trophy Hunting says.

CF members, who are opposing moves to protect threatened giraffes under US
law, fought and won a drive against giving African lions the highest level
of protection, according to the report seen…