A Cambridge-educated lawyer has been revealed as a top trophy hunter accused of killing dozens of African animals.
Abigail Day has won more than 20 awards from Safari Club International – a US hunting organisation – whose London division she founded in 2006.
Ms Day – who graduated with a law degree in 1987 – has also won an ‘African Big 5 award’ for shooting a lion, elephant, leopard, rhino and cape buffalo.
She is one of only two living British hunters to have received the ‘award’, reports The Telegraph.
Cambridge-educated lawyer Abigail Day (pictured) has been revealed as a top trophy hunter accused of killing dozens of African animals
In a book published tomorrow by Eduardo Goncalves – the founder of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting – further details of Ms Day’s involvement in hunting will be revealed.
Mr Goncalves’s book Trophy Leaks: Top Hunters & Industry Secrets Revealed will also expose another trophy hunter who boasted about the ‘thrill’ of killing animals all over the world on his social media.
Thames Water customer service manager Asif Wattoo, from Berkshire, has hunted zebras and also posed with giraffe carcasses on trips to France, Pakistan and South Africa, according to The Star.
In 2008, Ms Day was the recipient of SCI’s ‘Diana’ award for being the world’s top female trophy hunter and has hunted in 36 countries.
Mr Goncalves’s book Trophy Leaks: Top Hunters & Industry Secrets Revealed will also expose another trophy hunter who boasted about the ‘thrill’ of killing animals all over the world on his social media – Asif Wattoo (pictured)
Mr Goncalves said: ‘There is no other Briton so deeply enmeshed in the global industry. To see her list of awards was extraordinary.’
When The Telegraph visited her home in west London they said that found oryx, warthog and a stuffed big cat thought to be a leopard mounted on her walls.
Ms Day declined to comment on the contents of the book.
In 2005 she wrote to the publication to explain how hunting plays a ‘vital role’ in conservation.
The other hunter exposed in the book Mr Wattoo has one Facebook album containing 50 hunting photographs.
Asif Wattoo, (far right) from Berkshire has hunted zebras and also posed with giraffe carcasses on trips to France, Pakistan and South Africa
He goes on regular hunting trips with South African firm Umlilo Safaris – who offer ‘canned’ lion hunts and shooting trips where you can hunt rhino, elephant, leopard, hippo and antelope.
Canned hunting is the killing of captive-bred wild animals in small enclosures. It is most commonly associated with the trophy-hunting of lions.
Writing on Facebook about one of his stalks with Umlilo Safaris, Wattoo said: ‘We saw three nice Impala Rams, but my Professional Hunter knew exactly what I was after (Big and old RAM).
The other hunter exposed in the book Mr Wattoo (centre) has one Facebook album containing 50 hunting photographs
Mr Wattoo (centre) goes on regular hunting trips with South African firm Umlilo Safaris – who offer ‘canned’ lion hunts and shooting trips where you can hunt rhino, elephant, leopard, hippo and antelope
‘The ram was quartering away so hit him a bit back but the bullet came out of the neck so you can image how much was he quartering away? he only ran about 10m and dropped.’
In another post he describes hunting a waterbuck: ‘I could’ve shot him at 80m but I wanted my first animal to be a full symmetrical/represented trophy.
‘We waited for about 30min for my animal to stand up, and as soon as he stood up, BOOM straight in the chest, he only ran about 30m and dropped.’
He added: ‘If you’ve hunted in Africa you know exactly how thrilling it is, but if you have not, I suggest you go soon (try Umlilo Safaris)?.
‘Only then you will know exactly what and how I am feeling right now?. Lol.’
Campaigner Mr Goncalves has battled for years to ban the importation of hunting trophies to the UK.