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African Hunting Holiday (2008)

African Hunting Holiday poster
Original title
Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday
Directed by
Paddy Wivell
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
58 min
Rated
12
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 26 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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Louis Theroux travels to South Africa to look at the business of canned hunting. He interviews the tourists who pay to shoot lions and other big game in fenced areas. The documentary also talks to the people who run these safaris and examines how the practice affects local wildlife populations.

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What happens

African Hunting Holiday is a 2008 British documentary by Louis Theroux. Theroux journeys to Limpopo Province, South Africa to join the foreign holidaymakers who flock there to hunt big game in so-called "canned" safaris where animals are purpose bred to be hunted in enclosures, including controversial animals such as lions. The documentary features not only the hunters but also the individuals who run the safaris, and the effects they have on the numbers of certain species in these areas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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