OPINIONISTA: Man Friday: An elephant by any other name… is still an elephant

Every three years, the anti-hunting, animal rights lobby steps up the rhetoric around trophy hunting, accompanied by sponsored feature articles on why hunters are so evil .

The most controversial proposal is one from Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe, to allow limited trade in elephant products. In the middle of all this comes the hunting in Namibia of a bull elephant given the name “Voortrekker”. Naming individual animals, which always become “iconic” once hunted, is a key tool in the animal rights workbox.

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