Trophy hunters slammed for posing with slain rhino plan shooting holiday to Donald Trump’s flagship Scots hotel
Marksmen splashed out to blast 600 pheasants and partridges on six-night stay at the US President’s plush Turnberry resort in Ayrshire
TROPHY hunters slammed for posing with a slain rhino are jetting to Donald Trump’s flagship hotel for a luxury shooting holiday.
Rich marksmen splashed out to blast 600 pheasants and partridges on a six-night stay at the US President’s plush Turnberry resort in Ayrshire.
The winner of the £10,000 auction by the controversial Dallas Safari Club, Texas, will also be treated to a Burns supper, whisky tasting and country dancers.
But animal campaigners last night blasted the trip and urged Holyrood to snub blood-thirsty tourists.
Harry Huyton, of charity OneKind, said: “I hope the Scottish Government think again about supporting this industry.
“Visit Scotland, but leave the guns at home and enjoy watching our wildlife instead of killing it.”
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The shooter and guest will be chauffeured from Glasgow Airport to the five-star hotel.
An online itinerary reveals three days’ hunting “with a daily bag expectancy of 200 high-quality pheasants and partridges” with free gun hire and ammo.
It thanks “Pheasant Hunting Scotland at Trump Turnberry” for the donation.
It comes two years after Dallas Safari Club sicko Corey Knowlton paid £270,000 to kill an endangered black rhino in Namibia — before later posing for snaps with it.
Bosses bizarrely claimed cash would go to the Save the Rhino Trust.
A plan to blast an elephant in Cameroon was axed over death threats.
Ex-journalist Pete Richardson, who left Glasgow to create the world’s first rhino orphanage in Limpopo, South Africa, called kills “pathetic”.
He said: “What sort of human would consider it apart from someone with no heart or brain?”
Bird-shoot organiser Andrew Case, of Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, joined Turnberry staff and 50,000 fans at a Safari Club show to offer the trip — which had an auction estimate of £9,700.
He said: “We’re out there to promote the goods and services we have in Scotland.” Trump Turnberry declined to comment.
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