The perverse actions of big game hunters have been exposed in a shocking new documentary.
In shocking scenes, Texas sheep farmer Philip Glass can be seen savagely slaughtering wild animals – including a lion, hippo and elephant – in South Africa.
Trophy, which is produced by the actor Tom Hardy, follows Glass as he pays to hunt the ‘Big Five’ – elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard and rhino – and praises God for granting humans ‘dominion over the animals’.
In shocking scenes, Texas sheep farmer Philip Glass (pictured) can be seen savagely slaughtering wild animals – including a lion, hippo and elephant – in South Africa
Trophy, which is produced by the actor Tom Hardy, follows Glass as he pays to hunt the ‘Big Five’ – elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard and rhino – and praises God for granting humans ‘dominion over the animals’. Pictured: A young hunter in the film
In the film, one particularly odd hunter can be seen shooting a crocodile after shouting, ‘Let me put my beer down’
The film’s barbaric footage has been released as US President Donald Trump announced he will allow big game hunters – like his sons Donald Jr and Eric – to import trophies from slain elephants into America again.
The new White House regulation overturns an Obama-era ban on elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia.
In the film, one particularly odd hunter can be seen shooting a crocodile after shouting, ‘Let me put my beer down’.
He then wails: ‘Oh, yeah, motherf*****!’
The film shines a light on a philosophy – summed up as ‘if it pays, it stays’ – which claims that conservation of endangered animals is best achieved by offering them up to be shot by paying hunters
The documentary, made by Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau, also offers a glimpse at the world’s largest convention for hunters in Las Vegas (pictured)
Christo Gomes, who owns the Mabula Pro Safaris in South Africa, offers hunters the chance to kill – and take home – any big African animal for between $25,000 and $100,000
Southern Africa now has just 20,000 white rhinos and 20,000 lions. A man in the film with a rhino horn
The film’s barbaric footage has been released as US President Donald Trump announced he will allow big game hunters – like his sons Donald Jr and Eric – to import trophies from slain elephants into America again
Later in the film, after shooting a wildebeest, the strange man can be seen enjoying a perverse kiss with a woman over the top of the animal’s corpse.
The documentary, made by Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau, also offers a glimpse at the world’s largest convention for hunters in Las Vegas.
While there, we learn about the people who believe the only way to conserve wildlife is to offer it up for slaughter by rich hunters.
Their philosophy – ‘if it pays, it stays’ – means the lives of majestic animals in southern Africa are sold for tens, and sometimes hundreds, of thousands of dollars.
International wildlife organizations reacted earlier on Thursday with fury to the Trump administration’s decision. Above is Donald Trump Jr pictured with the tail of an elephant (left) on one of his hunting trips to Zimbabwe in 2011 while right he can be seen with his brother Eric after killing a leopard
Donald Jr seen here with a Cape Buffalo Bull, which his tour guide said he shot with ‘the precision of a true marksman’. The Trump administration said managed hunting can benefit the conservation of some species
They believe that doing so guarantees the survival of wildlife because.
One man in the film explains: ‘Give me one animal that’s gone extinct while farmers were breeding it and making money out of it. There’s not one.’
Christo Gomes, who owns the Mabula Pro Safaris in South Africa, offers hunters the chance to kill – and take home – any big African animal for between $25,000 and $100,000.
Gomes tells customers they can ‘pick the animals you want to shoot’, allowing them to choose the size and sex of their prey.
He says that about 70 per cent of his business comes from the US.
Southern Africa now has just 20,000 white rhinos and 20,000 lions.