Brussels Airlines has modified their Cargo policy to ban the transport of any hunting trophies aboard their aircraft with immediate effect. This bans covers their entire network.
What makes Brussels’ announcement so important is the fact that they directly serve 20 African destinations. With this newly revised policy the impact should reverberate throughout the continent.
Brussels now joins Lufthansa, South African, Singapore, and Emirates with recent policy announcements that ban the transport of Hunting Trophies, regardless whether they were harvested legally or not.
It is encouraging to see airlines taking on an important role in an attempt to discourage the practice of hunting large African game simply for the purpose of harvesting a trophy. Also encouraging is the fact that these transport bans are going beyond just the ‘obvious’ animals such as Rhino, Elephants, Lions, Tigers, and the like.
With the prevalence of poaching and other questionable hunting ethics, I for one am glad that Airlines are beginning to take an ‘absolute’ position on the matter.
I think it is wrong to kill animals just because you can for trophy’s. Wrong wrong wrong
The culture is changing and malicious white-privilege trophy hunters are rightly vilified for their deadly contamination of true conservation and respect for animals and peoples.
Deltahater has a haters view of activism and cooperative efforts outside the system — and calls us uneducated! Hater’s stuck in the past, but activists are changing the world, along with Lufthansa, for which we are grateful.
I agree with everything you said until you dropped a race card……
If these airlines would contribute to projects of anti-poaching, it could be considered much more meaningful as this senseless ban. Legal trophy hunting has proven over and over as a method to conserve species. This decision is a typical example of short sightness and misinformation.
I know you are big on this topic, but do you not realize that 95% of all trophies are shipped by sea? So this is a Pyrrhic victory at best.
Why do I know all this? I am working (as a volunteer) to protect the rhinos in Namibia. But as long as uneducated people vilify the hunters, the poachers will always win. In order to save the animals from poachers we need the hunters. Poachers are the problem, not hunters.
I understand that there are other ways that trophies get shipped, but SN, SQ, LH and EK are doing what is within their control. Compared to others like DL, at least they are trying to becoming part of a solution.
Yes but that is like saying. Ill stop eating meat and that saves animals from the slaughterhouse. True but meaningless. It has almost no impact
I get it, but what else is in there control that they can impact? I think they did everything they could that is within their control. I agree, the crate shippers like Hapag Lloyd, Maersk, etc. are the big shippers. Hopefully one day they’ll follow suit, but I don’t hold my breath.