50 Dark Destinations: A criminological analysis of contemporary tourism
Trophy hunting involves the killing of animals to keep and display body parts as trophies. Huntin... more Trophy hunting involves the killing of animals to keep and display body parts as trophies. Hunting is legal in many countries around the world, but big game hunting is at its biggest in sub-Saharan Africa, which accounts for seven of the top ten countries that export trophy items (Born Free, 2019). Tourists, predominantly from the US and Europe, pay substantial fees to shoot indigenous wildlife. Often portrayed somewhat romantically as a battle of wits between man (and participants are predominantly, although by no means exclusively, men) and beast, hunting is seen as an exciting and dangerous wilderness adventure. In reality, while hunting can involve tracking animals on foot and sleeping in tents, hunters are well-equipped, well-protected and well-looked after. Costing hundreds to thousands of dollars per day, hunting safaris are a high-end luxury form of tourism. ‘Canned’ hunting, where animals are bred in captivity and released into enclosed areas to be shot, takes hunting even further away from any pretence of a fair chase or a reversion to some natural state of predator versus prey.
50 Dark Destinations: A criminological analysis of contemporary tourism
Trophy hunting involves the killing of animals to keep and display body parts as trophies. Huntin... more Trophy hunting involves the killing of animals to keep and display body parts as trophies. Hunting is legal in many countries around the world, but big game hunting is at its biggest in sub-Saharan Africa, which accounts for seven of the top ten countries that export trophy items (Born Free, 2019). Tourists, predominantly from the US and Europe, pay substantial fees to shoot indigenous wildlife. Often portrayed somewhat romantically as a battle of wits between man (and participants are predominantly, although by no means exclusively, men) and beast, hunting is seen as an exciting and dangerous wilderness adventure. In reality, while hunting can involve tracking animals on foot and sleeping in tents, hunters are well-equipped, well-protected and well-looked after. Costing hundreds to thousands of dollars per day, hunting safaris are a high-end luxury form of tourism. ‘Canned’ hunting, where animals are bred in captivity and released into enclosed areas to be shot, takes hunting even further away from any pretence of a fair chase or a reversion to some natural state of predator versus prey.
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