Dame Judi Dench backs new call to ban trophy hunting

Dame Judi Dench is calling for a prohibition connected trophy hunting (Image: Getty)

Dame Judi Dench is starring a caller run to prohibition trophy hunting and propulsion the Labour Government to support its manifesto committedness connected the issue.

Other apical stars specified arsenic Ricky Gervais, Sir David Jason, Brian Blessed and Dame Joanna Lumley person each joined the thrust to extremity the cruel “sport” that
has immoderate taxon heading towards a “needless and senseless extinction”.

The Ban Trophy Hunting foundation brought its run to Westminster with a billboard showing Sally the tiger cub.

Sally was “bred for the bullet” but rescued by the foundation successful South Africa past year.

Sally a 3 twelvemonth aged Bengal tiger pictured astatine a concealed sanctuary successful South Africa. Sally was bred t (Image: Rowan Griffiths / Daily Mirror)

Separated from her parent erstwhile she was lone days old, Sally was raised successful a “cub mill’ to marque her an casual target.

The foundation has besides launched a petition backed by a big of animal-loving celebrities.

Oscar victor Dame Judi, 89 said: “I person ne'er understood radical who privation to hunt and termination chaotic animals.

“We hunt to amusement off, what is the constituent of that? I accidental it should stop. Trophy hunting is cruel, archaic and cowardly.”

And Sir David, 84, added: “It seems we are condemning wildlife to not conscionable a cruel decease but besides to a needless and senseless extinction.

“We should bash everything we tin to transportation the Government to enactment swiftly.”

Ricky Gervais, good known for his carnal rights campaigning said: "Imagine seeing a beauteous carnal and reasoning that the champion people of enactment was to sprout it dead, and past show it successful your house? It's sick and perverted.

"These radical are psychopaths, and arsenic a nine we tin bash truthful overmuch amended than let it to proceed to happen.

"UK hunters deliberation it is alright to termination a beautiful, majestic endangered taxon for nary reason, determination was thing incorrect with them, truthful laws request to beryllium enactment successful spot to halt this benignant of behaviour. Please articulation maine successful backing the prohibition and motion the petition, badger your MP too, we are truthful astir there!"

The Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, which has cross-party support, calls for a prohibition connected trophy hunting and trophy imports.

In the Commons last
week, Labour MP Bambos Charalambous asked astir the timescale for legislation.

He lone received a written reply which simply read: “The Government committed in its manifesto to banning the import of hunting trophies.”