Club has postponed hunt for black rhino which attracted criticism
Chance to shoot African elephant in Cameroon listed at $20,000
Associated Press in Dallas
Saturday 17 January 2015 16.28 GMT
A Texas hunting club was once again scheduled on Saturday to auction off a chance to kill a large animal whose numbers are dwindling, a year after it faced international criticism over doing the same with a permit to shoot an endangered black rhino.
The Dallas Safari Club planned to auction a 12-day African elephant hunt in Cameroon during its annual three-day convention at a Dallas hotel, a hunt valued in the auction catalog at $20,000.
The African elephant is the Earth’s largest land animal. The World Wildlife Fund, the world’s leading conservation group, regards it as “vulnerable”, a step below “endangered” and “facing a high risk of extinction in the wild”.
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