An annual American trophy hunting convention is auctioning off a week-long "dream hunt" with the US president's son, Donald Trump Jr.
The "hunters' heaven" experience will be sold to the highest bidder at the end of the Safari Club International event which is being held in Reno, Nevada.
The prize will see the winner take part in a sitka black-tailed deer hunt in Alaska with Mr Trump Jr, the president's grandson and Coastal Alaska Adventures owner Keegan McCarthy.
Promotional material for the auction hails Mr Trump Jr as “a man who needs no introduction, and whose passion for the outdoors makes him the number one ambassador for our way of life.”
Donald Trump Jr. speaks at the Western Conservative Summit. Source: Denver Post
The US president's son is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at SCI's convention, with the hunt slated to take place in November.
The event is also auctioning off a two-week trip to Namibia with the chance to shoot an elephant, an all-inclusive hunt in Zimbabwe to kill buffalo, giraffe and wildebeest, as well as a 10-day crocodile hunt in South Africa.
SCI, which advocates for a number of pro-hunting issues including constitutional amendments to guarantee the right to hunt and fish, says all proceeds from the event will go towards its "hunter advocacy and wildlife conservation efforts."
Mr Trump Jr has long endorsed big-game hunting, but his father has shown alternative views in the past.
In November 2017, the US president took to Twitter to describe the practice as a "horror show."
The Humane Society of the United States has slammed the event and its auction, decrying it as "senseless."
“This annual event is the largest meeting in the world of people who celebrate the senseless killing, buying and selling of dead animals for bragging rights," the organisation's president and chief executive Kitty Block said.
The event organisers hit back at critics, labelling them the "height of hypocrisy" by claiming that hunting makes a significant contribution to conservation.
The group has also lauded Mr Trump Jr. as "an accomplished conservationist" according to The Guardian.
The SCI event has divided opinion in other areas, with music group The Beach Boys seemingly at odds over the convention.
The band's co-founder Brian Wilson is urging fans to boycott the event after a version of the group, fronted by fellow co-founder Mike Love, agreed to perform at the convention.
Wilson took to Twitter to say both he, and former guitarist Al Jardine, oppose the nature of the event.
Love, who owns the touring rights to the name of the iconic 1960s band, told Variety he plans to go ahead with the performance.
"We look forward to a night of great music in Reno and, as always, support freedom of thought and expression as a fundamental tenet of our rights as Americans," he said.
