Big game hunters target Zimbabwe

Foreign big game hunters bid $1.5m (€1.2m) to shoot leopards, lions, elephants and buffaloes in Zimbabwe this year, the state media reported yesterday.

In an annual state auction for hunting trophy “bags” on Friday, 64 local agents and foreign hunters, including bidders from Austria, Germany, Russia, Spain and the United States, paid a fixed fee of 40 dollars for a license to kill a lion, the state Sunday Mail newspaper reported.