#TrophyHunting. A🧵. The UK's Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill will have its 2nd reading in the Lords on Friday. The rationale assumes that legal hunting for trophies threatens many species. The UK Government says the bill will protect ~7000 species. We investigated 1/n

Ok I lied, last post about this topic for now, I promise!! Getting on a plane so that might stop me! 😄 thetimes.co.uk/article/the-uk…

For anyone who wants to know what was said in the House of Lords debate last night, but couldn't watch, here is the full transcript. The Lords wanting to amend the Bill had stats and facts to back them up. Those supporting it had weak generalisations. hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2023-09-…

Hugely disingenuous of Born Free Foundation to frame this the way they have. The "highly contested" information was peer reviewed science. The "hunting advocates" are independent scientists advocating evidence based approaches. Shameful even by BF tactics 🤦 bornfree.org.uk/news/peers-thw…

HSA Chair Dan Challender Natalie Bennett University of Oxford dilys roe Prof Adam Hart 🦏 You don't seem to understand science. It's literally framed around the 95% probability of things happening. If people talk in absolutes it's a red flag to me. But presumably you've seen 'hard facts' that this ban will support conservation - can you share them?

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Exciting day with Prof. Kennedy Dzama visiting our stand at #AfricanBiotradeFestival. FairWild standards, wild products, and amazing African wild proteins - a testament to the booming #wildlifeeconomy!

#TrophyHunting. A🧵at end of week in which Hunting Trophies (Import Prohib'n) Bill was discussed in House of Lords. Lobby groups continue to campaign for bill as drafted incl. Born Free Foundation hsiukorg 超级Z.Y.N 发明家 V2 FOUR PAWS UK Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting based largely on misinformation 1/8

@knowmiun City's🐘 for Elephants & Rhinos🚩 @HSIUKorg @ClaireHSI Rishi Sunak Robb Edwards 🌱 Labour Animal Welfare Society Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation Peter Egan dominic dyer ANIMAL ADVOCATE Ⓥ @ProtectWldlife Amy Dickman 🦁 @amydickman.bsky.social Prof Adam Hart 🦏 dilys roe MPLSOxford Oxford Biology University of Oxford Oxford Martin School WildCRU, Oxford ICCS CITES IUCN Red List Yes it’s a pre-print. We can have confidence in the data. The authors have decades of collecting, curating, and analysing such data.

@knowmiun City's🐘 for Elephants & Rhinos🚩 @HSIUKorg @ClaireHSI Rishi Sunak Robb Edwards 🌱 Labour Animal Welfare Society Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation Peter Egan dominic dyer ANIMAL ADVOCATE Ⓥ @ProtectWldlife Amy Dickman 🦁 @amydickman.bsky.social Prof Adam Hart 🦏 dilys roe MPLSOxford Oxford Biology University of Oxford Oxford Martin School WildCRU, Oxford ICCS CITES IUCN Red List Try here. Maybe so many people downloading it seeking evidence biorxiv.org/content/10.110….

This is both wrong and defamatory- it is not made by hunters, and it links to a preprint of a data paper that supports all figures. City's🐘 for Elephants & Rhinos🚩 - you need to delete this nonsense

Robert Hii Prof Adam Hart 🦏 City's🐘 for Elephants & Rhinos🚩 Poster's source: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Robert Hii City's🐘 for Elephants & Rhinos🚩 It would help if you put the actual address in the poster in to a browser. When you can it will lead you here. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Dan Challender Prof Adam Hart 🦏 Robert Hii City's🐘 for Elephants & Rhinos🚩 For sure

Fantastic but damning thread by Nikolaj Bichel - definitely time to write more up on the insane misinformation & policy failures around this campaign

This is getting into proper conspiracy theories!

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Story on our new preprint looking at 50 years of wildlife-related patents, including for rhino, pangolin and sturgeon. We found increasing patent-filing (even for illegal products) and diversification of product types. Still in peer review but here: researchsquare.com/article/rs-336…

South Africa's revised game meat strategy could literally be a game changer for Africa’s #WildlifeEconomy.