A British firm is promoting sick reindeer taking pictures holidays this Christmas.
Hendry, Ramsay & Waters – run by businessman Vernon Waters – boasts that it “is happy to have the ability to provide Moose and trophy Reindeer searching within the North Jap a part of Norway”. The “unique” 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: “Just a few licences can be found for giant males, so this hunt could be very unique and the season very brief.”
The agency doesn’t say how a lot a visit prices however it’s understood to be hundreds of kilos. The web site says “costs on software” and even suggests to trophy hunters the most effective sort of rifle with which to kill a reindeer.
It goes on: “We’ve got full exclusivity in each the Breheimen and Jotunheimen nationwide parks which holds Europe’s final surviving inhabitants of untamed Reindeer which have been hunted right here because the Ice Age. The Jotunheimen nationwide park reopens this 12 months after being closed to all trying to find the previous 8 years so this untouched territory will actually be price a go to. The panorama is breathtaking moorland framed with mountainous peaks and glaziers reaching 2,500 metres above sea degree.”
Animal rights activists accused the agency of ruining “the spirit of Christmas for kids all over the place”. Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, of the Marketing campaign to Ban Trophy Searching, stated: “That is most likely probably the most un-British factor I’ve ever heard of. If we wanted proof of simply how evil trophy hunters actually are, then that is absolutely it.
“These cowards are glad to damage the spirit of Christmas for kids all over the place. How dare they. For a British firm to be cashing in on this shame is past appalling. We’d like an entire ban on this sick trade.”
Mr Waters, 72, has been “the MD of a sporting company offering searching sports activities globally”, in accordance with his LinkedIn profile. He has held the function since March 2004, in accordance with the web site. He was at work within the Excessive Avenue workplace of Hendry, Ramsay & Waters in Fife, when our reporter visited this week. Requested if he wished to touch upon the reindeer searching, he replied: “No, I don’t” earlier than shutting the door.
Contacted by cellphone by the Mirror at this time, Mr Waters hung up after our reporter launched himself.
His firm claims to be “Scotland’s premier sporting company” and even gives to assist British trophy hunters with permits to allow them to take their very own rifles by means of Norway’s airports. As soon as within the nation, the web site gives a glimpse of what gun-toting vacationers can count on.
“On the Breheimen nationwide, there are two searching areas: the South East park is our hardest searching floor and it helps to be in good bodily form as you be searching in an unlimited wilderness from our base camp within the mountains, and should be ready to stroll 5 – 15 kms per day, beginning with a 2 hour trek (good path) to the comfy log cabin which shall be your base at some point of the hunt,” it says.
“The South West searching space is reached by a ship and is the simpler of all searching areas which features a cabin in the course of the Reindeer space which is just about 1 hour simple strolling from whenever you get off the boat. The surroundings is just beautiful and actually provides to the ambiance of the journey.”
Animal welfare campaigner Peter Egan, who starred in Downton Abbey, stated: “Trophy hunters are the bottom of the low, however this actually takes the biscuit. British trophy hunters are killing defenceless reindeer for kicks. I really feel completely sick to my abdomen on the mere considered it. No matter occurred to Christmas cheer and the season of goodwill? The very best Christmas current the Authorities may give us is the ban on searching trophies they’ve been promising for the final 4 years. Hopefully this scandal will immediate them to get on with it.”
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This article by Ben Glaze was first revealed by The Mirror on 17 December 2023. Lead Picture: Hendry, Ramsay & Waters – run by businessman Vernon Waters – boasts that it “is happy to have the ability to provide Moose and trophy Reindeer searching (Picture: Getty Pictures/iStockphoto).
