Whether hunting Africa’s Big Five—elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion and leopard—on the African plains, or tracking a large Kodiak bear on the Alaskan tundra, the guides and professional hunters ...

Today, the term “Big Five” refers to the beauty and power of some of Africa’s most iconic animals. However, it has a much ...

Trophy hunters in the 19th century considered elephants, buffalo, leopards, lions, and rhinoceros the most sought-after animals in Africa due to the difficulty of the hunt. Over the years ...

A pest to ranchers, a prize to hunters, and a temperamental tank to anything that bothers it, African buffalo roam by the thousands in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape buffalo, one of four distinct ...

“But buffalo, elephants, and, yeah ... That is basically like wiping out a whole pride.” Read Next: Why Hunting Africa Has Nothing to Do With Trophy Hunting It can be hard on a person to witness this ...

But trophy hunting today, especially of the so-called big five in Africa (elephant, lion, leopard, rhino, and Cape buffalo), brings with it a larger set of moral and financial questions.