Trade show hunt sickos

Glorifying slaughter for kicks

Eduardo Goncalves, from the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, said: “What an appalling ‘hobby’, and what a disgusting way to make a living.”

Most stalls were lined with furs such as bears and springboks. There were stuffed animals including lions, hyenas and tigers.

There are now less than 4,000 tigers left in the wild, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Items on offer included traps, a fox cushion for £84, and a bear skin complete with head for £849.

I also encountered hunters selling cutprice safaris to kill imperilled species such as giraffes for £2,600.

First Class Trophy, a taxidermy company based in Denmark, was punting a new smartphone app boasting “easy and fast” quotes for stuffing your animal of choice. European trophy hunters have killed about 75,000 animals in the past decade.

Manon Dene, from Humane Society International, said: “This kind of trophy hunting fair outlines how shockingly easy it is for individuals to travel almost anywhere in the world to shoot as many iconic or endangered species as their bank account allows.”

The Mirror is campaigning for an end to trophy hunting. We are calling on the Government to ban the import of animals that are shot for pleasure.

The Government is consulting until February 25 on whether trophy hunting imports should be outlawed.

You can help the campaign by emailing huntingtrophyconsultation@defra.gov. uk and saying you support a total ban.

GRISLY STALL Mirror’s Nada at vast fair