Sentence examples for trophy horn from inspiring English sources

Trophy hunting (unlike meat production) is profitable and ecologically robust, even more so because trophy hunting markets are personalized and information-rich, so hunting clients quickly avoid outfitters who over-hunt with below-average trophy (horn) size.

He shows me documents, all stamped by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), which approve the export from South Africa and the import to Vietnam of a "trophy horn".

It is now illegal to sell rhino horn trophies and mounted horns in the UK.

The decline of the southern population accelerated as Europeans began to settle the area and hunt them for meat, hides and horn trophies.

A clock tower, nearly 65 feet high, studded with elk horn hunting trophies, once greeted visitors to the estate.

Much the way trophy hunters display the horns of a prize buck but discard the carcass, Arader cut apart old atlases to retrieve and sell the maps separately, an unseemly practice that is known as book breaking.

Guy Schooling, Sworders's managing director, said in an interview that the company thought it had averted trouble when, before an auction in February, it locked up its rhino-horn trophies and hired security guards to patrol the premises.

Down the hallway from the Horned Frogs' makeshift trophy case is a small viewing room with windows that look onto the range where the team spends 20 hours a week practicing and has home matches that, according to Morrissey, usually see a crowd of nine, maybe 10, fans.

The selection imposed by trophy hunting targeting males with larger horns led to a decrease in horn length and body size both at the phenotypic and genetic levels, because of a strong genetic correlation between both traits (Coltman et al. 2003).

Even in Britain we are feeling the effects: several museums have been broken into and have had antique trophy rhino heads stolen for the horn.

Nonetheless, rhino hunting is permitted under strict rules - fewer than 100 experienced hunters can apply for a permit every year to shoot just one rhino and they're legally required to keep the horn intact, as a trophy.