Our MP Sir Greg Knight has been named as a member of a special House of Commons committee to oversee a bill which could introduce the world’s toughest ban on hunting trophies.

Since 1980, British hunters have brought home approximately 5,000 trophies of species listed as endangered including  Elephants, Hippos, Leopards, Zebras and Lions.

Experts say elephant numbers have fallen from 3 million a century ago to just 400,000. Lion populations have crashed from 200,000 in the 1970s to between 10-20,000. Scientists say trophy hunting is one of the reasons for this.