Killing endangered species to save them? Trophy hunters lobby at CITES
As conservationists and campaigners thrash out wildlife trade rules, a debate rages over whether trophy hunting helps or hinders the protection of endangered species.
You’d probably expect a global conference to regulate trade in endangered species to be busy with conservationists and animal rights activists. But what about hunters?
“We’re here first to defend the sustainable use principles of the convention and also trade and hunting trophies,” said Joseph Goergen, a trophy-hunting advocate at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) conference in Geneva this week.
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Goergen is conservation manager at the Safari Club International Foundation, a non-profit that “funds and manages programs dedicated to wildlife conservation.”
It’s also sister organization to Safari Club International…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I would not want to rub shoulders with the Safari Club. Don’t they have their own convention? 😦