CAMPAIGN TO BAN TROPHY HUNTING Press Release For immediate release: Sunday 17th March 2019 Contact: Eduardo Gonçalves
[email protected] 0782 682 4384 REVEALED: The U.K. hunter who ‘has shot more wildlife than the killer of Cecil the Lion’ The Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting has today revealed the identity of a British man who has killed hundreds of animals in 5 continents, and is considered to be among the world’s ‘elite’ in the global trophy hunting industry. Malcolm King has won a staggering 36 top awards with Safari Club International (SCI), the industry’s biggest lobby group, and has at least 125 entries in SCI’s Records Book. SCI President Paul Babaz, who is also a board member of the NRA, described the hunting group’s mission as “to protect the freedom to hunt whatever game we choose to hunt, as well as protect the right to own the firearms of our choice”. The combined number of animals required for the awards won by King is 528. Among his awards are prizes for shooting African ‘Big Game’, wild cats, and bears, as well as animals in Asia and the South Pacific. Eduardo Gonçalves, founder of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, said: “Very few hunters anywhere have amassed so many of the industry’s obscene ‘Oscars’. Malcolm King is Britain’s ‘Walter Palmer’. The difference is he’s shot more animals than the killer of Cecil the Lion.” The revelation comes just weeks before the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos, taking place on April 13 in major cities throughout Europe, the US and Africa.