MADRID (AP)
— The World Wildlife Fund's branch in Spain says it has ousted King Juan Carlos
as its honorary president — a title he'd held since 1968 — because the monarch's
recent elephant hunting safari was incompatible with the group's goal of
conserving endangered species.
The fund
said in a statement that "although such hunting is legal and
regulated" it had "received many expressions of distress from its
members and society in general." It says members voted in a meeting in
Madrid on Saturday to "to get rid of the honorary President."
News of the
king's April elephant hunting trip in Botswana upset many Spaniards who
considered it an opulent extravagance at a time of economic distress in the
country.
The Royal
Palace declined immediate comment on the WWF announcement.
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King Juan Carlos on his €10,000-a-day hunting safari in Botswana, which had been hushed up before he fell and broke his hip. Photograph: Target Press/Barcroft Media |
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