Hunting in Tanzania threatens the Maasai, but the EU has no plans to ban trophy imports (yet)

 

(Posted 23td June 2025)

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News

 

 

Emanuele Bonini, Euronews (Belgium) June 19, 2025
Brussels – Sports hunting in Tanzania is increasingly threatening the Maasai, the indigenous people torn from their land for hunting activities, whose products will continue to be sold in the EU. The European Commission has no intention of changing the current rules, even in the face of practices considered immoral and inhuman by the European Parliament. The Greens, Socialists (S&D), and radical left (The Left) are mobilizing through a joint question calling for a ban or suspension of imports of hunting trophies from the East African state precisely because of the negative impact on the indigenous peoples in the Ngorongoro conservation area.
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