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American Airlines said it would join Delta and United Airlines in banning the transport of animals known in Africa as the "big five", coined by hunters because they are the hardest to kill on foot. 
Lufthansa Cargo decided in early June to no longer accept any trophies from Africa, while Emirates SkyCargo banned such shipments in May.

There has been an international outcry against trophy hunting among animal lovers since it emerged that American dentist Walter Palmer killed a rare black-maned lion that was a familiar sight at Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park.

Delta Air Lines Inc, the only American airline to fly directly between the United States and Johannesburg, will also review policies on accepting other hunting trophies with government agencies and other organizations that support legal shipments, it said.

Nearly 400,000 people signed a Change.org petition that was started by a Delta customer calling for the airline to stop transporting exotic hunting trophies, the organization said.

The bans will make it harder for hunters to get their trophies home to put above the mantelpiece, dealing a blow to Africa's multi-million-dollar game industry.

Bow and arrow hunting of big animals should be banned.  Just a thought.