A British firm is promoting sick reindeer taking pictures holidays this Christmas.
Hendry, Ramsay & Waters – run by businessman Vernon Waters – boasts that it “is pleased to be able to offer Moose and trophy Reindeer hunting in the North Eastern part of Norway”. The “exclusive” journeys would happen throughout three weeks in late summer season.
Outlining the reindeer searching journeys in the stores this Christmas, the corporate’s web site, scothunt.co.uk says: “Only a few licences are available for big males, so this hunt is very exclusive and the season very short.” The agency doesn’t say how a lot a visit prices however it’s understood to be hundreds of kilos. The web site says “prices on application” and even suggests to trophy hunters the very best kind of rifle with which to kill a reindeer.
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It goes on: “We have full exclusivity in both the Breheimen and Jotunheimen national parks which holds Europe’s last surviving population of wild Reindeer which have been hunted here since the Ice Age. The Jotunheimen national park reopens this year after being closed to all hunting for the past 8 years so this untouched territory will really be worth a visit. The landscape is breathtaking moorland framed with mountainous peaks and glaziers reaching 2,500 metres above sea level.”
Animal rights activists accused the agency of ruining “the spirit of Christmas for children everywhere”. Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, mentioned: “This is probably the most un-British thing I have ever heard of. If we needed proof of just how evil trophy hunters really are, then this is surely it.
“These cowards are happy to ruin the spirit of Christmas for children everywhere. How dare they. For a British company to be profiting from this disgrace is beyond appalling. We need a complete ban on this sick industry.”
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Mr Waters, 72, has been “the MD of a sporting agency providing hunting sports globally”, in line with his LinkedIn profile. He has held the function since March 2004, in line with the web site. He was at work within the High Street workplace of Hendry, Ramsay & Waters in Fife, when our reporter visited this week. Asked if he needed to touch upon the reindeer searching, he replied: “No, I don’t” earlier than shutting the door.
Contacted by telephone by the Mirror as we speak, Mr Waters hung up after our reporter launched himself.
His firm claims to be “Scotland’s premier sporting agency” and even provides to assist British trophy hunters with permits to allow them to take their very own rifles via Norway’s airports. Once within the nation, the web site provides a glimpse of what gun-toting vacationers can count on.
“At the Breheimen national, there are two hunting areas: the South East park is our hardest hunting ground and it helps to be in good physical shape as you be hunting in a vast wilderness from our base camp in the mountains, and must be prepared to walk 5 – 15 kms per day, starting with a 2 hour trek (good path) to the comfortable log cabin which will be your base for the duration of the hunt,” it says. “The South West hunting area is reached by a boat and is the easier of all hunting areas which includes a cabin in the middle of the Reindeer area which is only about 1 hour easy walking from when you get off the boat. The scenery is simply stunning and really adds to the ambiance of the trip.”
Animal welfare campaigner Peter Egan, who starred in Downton Abbey, mentioned: “Trophy hunters are the lowest of the low, but this really takes the biscuit. British trophy hunters are killing defenceless reindeer for kicks. I feel utterly sick to my stomach at the mere thought of it. Whatever happened to Christmas cheer and the season of goodwill? The best Christmas present the Government could give us is the ban on hunting trophies they’ve been promising for the last four years. Hopefully this scandal will prompt them to get on with it.”