The Horrifying Secrets of Trophy Hunting

In 2023, KECC, with financial support from Asia Serpinska, published Eduardo Gonçalves’ book titled “The Horrifying Secrets of Trophy Hunting.”

Eduardo Gonçalves is a well-known English campaigner against trophy hunting, author of four books exposing the horrors of such hunting, and initiator of a campaign to ban trophy hunting, within which a number of investigations were conducted. The book details the causes and consequences of trophy hunting, its costs, and the number of animals killed just to hang a body part of an innocently killed animal on a wall. Trophy hunting destroys the best specimens (with large horns, tusks, or beautiful fur), which also contributes to the rapid extinction of species.

The book describes the extermination by hunters of tigers, leopards, giraffes, zebras, cheetahs, chimpanzees, puffins, and other animals.

Today in Ukraine, the question of legalizing trophy hunting is acute. Hunters are lobbying for this through the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, promoting this norm in the Hunting Strategy. In addition to trophy hunting, that Strategy contains many other horrifying provisions, such as promoting hunting in media and educational institutions, captive breeding of wild animals for hunting, and more.

We need sufficient knowledge and arguments to fight against the bloody barbaric whims of officials and the wealthy, and to finally ban cruel entertainment based on pain, blood, and animal suffering. That is why we recommend everyone (especially animal advocates) to read Eduardo Gonçalves’ book “The Horrifying Secrets of Trophy Hunting.”