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Captive Hunting and Endangered Species

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The endangered desert antelope called addax may be shot in captive hunts.

Captive hunts are generally reviled by the national hunting community, but extremist hunting groups like the Safari Club International staunchly defend captive hunting, include exotic animals shot at captive hunts in their record books and even support captive hunting of endangered animals.

Several endangered antelope species can be killed legally, thanks to lobbying efforts by the Safari Club International.

The International Union for the Conservations of Nature and Natural Resources lists the scimitar-horned oryx as extinct in the wild; the addax, California bighorn sheep, European bison and pere david deer as critically endangered; the dama gazelle, nubian ibex, Arabian oryx and markhor as endangered; the blackbuck and bongo as near threatened; and the aoudad, eld's deer, barasingha, African lion, mouflon, yak and tahr as vulnerable, yet these animals are all shot regularly on captive hunting ranches.

The HSUS is battling this extremist trophy hunter practice in the courts.

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