A club whose members, rich Chinese, travel abroad to shoot wild animals, has sparked outrage after reports it was planning a trip to Canada to shoot black bears or polar bears using rifles or bows and arrows.
The "I Love Hunting Club" is offering the trips at 500,000 yuan (US$79,377) per person.
Animal lovers across the country took to the Internet to condemn the club and its customers for damaging the environment and killing innocent animals for money.
The club, established by an American in 2007, says it provides "high-end and legal hunting services" for Chinese people. Members have to purchase hunting permits from foreign country governments to be allowed to hunt specific species in hunting grounds, according to club officials.
On the club's website, a hunting trip to Africa or North America costs from 60,000 to 500,000 yuan to cover travel, accommodation, hunting permits and other services.
So far about 100 Chinese people, mostly rich businessmen, have taken part in the club's hunting trips, and numbers are still increasing as hunting wild animals is becoming popular, a club official said.
But the scheme has caused huge waves of revulsion among animal lovers.
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