Hunting the truth

WITH reference to Maxi Louis’s article on trophy hunting (Mail), I can assure your readers such hunting does not aid conservation in Africa.

As a former chief inspector for the Zimbabwe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, I saw at first hand how funding supposed to be for the communities where hunts took place was never received by them.

Instead, due to rampant corruption, it was local councillors who were driving around in 4x4s and Mercedes while the locals got nothing. MERYL HARRISON,

Porlock, Somerset.