On May 4 Singapore Airlines and Singapore Airlines Cargo announced it would no longer accept hunting trophies on its aircraft/f lights with immediate effect, according to Jean-Pierre Cano, SA cargo executive of the airline. Bans like this are being applied because of a worldwide suspicion that a lot of such cargoes are being used as a front for the transport of carcasses or parts of the roughly 5 600 species of animals covered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (Cites) regulations. Also, because misdeclarations of hunting trophy shipments can even be used to ship other entirely different cargo types – often illegal goods. This move by Singapore Cargo follows the similar April 21 ban by SAA Cargo on transporting hunting trophies around the world – an embargo that, in its case, is limited to rhino, elephant, tiger and lion. The air carrier’s reason, it said, was because, in the past it had experienced a problem in which some shipments containing hunting trophies were misdeclared and the group was fined in a foreign country. SAA Cargo will keep the embargo in place until, it said, “all other options have been considered and stricter control measures have been put in place” to prevent a recurrence.
