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THE TRADE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM AT THE TRUMP-MOON SUMMIT: Moon’s visit to the White House today to talk nuclear diplomacy comes amid growing concerns back home that South Korea could soon be at WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday reversed the government’s decision to start allowing hunters to import trophies of elephants that were killed in two African countries, pending a further The Trump administration has once again decided to allow Americans to import the body parts of African elephants killed for sport, quietly reversing a policy that was changed last year to uphold a ban on importing parts of animals killed by big-game The Trump administration said in November it would allow the importation of body parts from African elephants shot for sport, contending that encouraging wealthy big-game hunters to kill them
Trump Administration Quietly Decides — Again — To Allow Elephant Trophy Imports. The Trump administration has lifted a ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from certain African countries, just over three months after President Trump appeared to pause a first attempt to do so amid public uproar.
The Trump administration plans to allow hunters to bring trophies of elephants they killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia back to the United States, reversing a ban put in place by the Obama administration in 2014, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official confirmed for ABC News today. Trump Administration Quietly Decides — Again — To Allow Elephant Trophy Imports. The Trump administration has lifted a ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from certain African countries, just over three months after President Trump appeared to pause a first attempt to do so amid public uproar. Trump lifts ban on importing hunted African elephant trophies Poachers kill nearly 11,000 Mozambique elephants in 7 years A public outcry at the decision prompted the US President to intervene. The US previously allowed ivory to be imported only from Namibia, South Africa and Botswana, although sport hunting is banned in the latter county. The President's son, Donald Trump Jr, sparked a wave of condemnation in 2012 when he was pictured holding the severed tail of an African elephant.
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Trump Administration Quietly Decides — Again — To Allow Elephant Trophy Imports. The Trump administration has lifted a ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from certain African countries, just over three months after President Trump appeared to pause a first attempt to do so amid public uproar. Trump lifts ban on importing hunted African elephant trophies Poachers kill nearly 11,000 Mozambique elephants in 7 years A public outcry at the decision prompted the US President to intervene. The US previously allowed ivory to be imported only from Namibia, South Africa and Botswana, although sport hunting is banned in the latter county. The President's son, Donald Trump Jr, sparked a wave of condemnation in 2012 when he was pictured holding the severed tail of an African elephant. The Trump administration will allow Americans to bring tusks and other elephant body parts back to this country as trophies, in a pivot away from the support President Trump voiced last year for an Obama-era trophy ban. The decision, Trump’s two adult sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, are both big-game hunters. Donald Trump Jr has been photographed with the corpse of a elephant, holding its severed tail in his hand. Ed Royce of California, the Republican chairman of the House committee on foreign affairs, Lara Trump, Eric’s wife, on the other hand, has become a vocal animal rights advocate and the Humane Society of the United States said she brought up the elephant trophy issue during meetings on
16 Nov 2017 Trump Encourages Elephant Hunting by Lifting Ban on Trophy Imports the global community has rallied to stem the ivory trade; and now, the
The US previously allowed ivory to be imported only from Namibia, South Africa and Botswana, although sport hunting is banned in the latter county. The President's son, Donald Trump Jr, sparked a wave of condemnation in 2012 when he was pictured holding the severed tail of an African elephant. The Trump administration will allow Americans to bring tusks and other elephant body parts back to this country as trophies, in a pivot away from the support President Trump voiced last year for an Obama-era trophy ban. The decision, Trump’s two adult sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, are both big-game hunters. Donald Trump Jr has been photographed with the corpse of a elephant, holding its severed tail in his hand. Ed Royce of California, the Republican chairman of the House committee on foreign affairs, Lara Trump, Eric’s wife, on the other hand, has become a vocal animal rights advocate and the Humane Society of the United States said she brought up the elephant trophy issue during meetings on On 15 November 2017, several news organizations reported that President Donald Trump had reversed Obama-era conservation efforts involving the import of ivory from Zimbabwe and Zambia, sparking outrage among animal rights supporters. CNN attributed the regulatory change to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service:
Lara Trump, Eric’s wife, on the other hand, has become a vocal animal rights advocate and the Humane Society of the United States said she brought up the elephant trophy issue during meetings on
The Trump administration said in November it would allow the importation of body parts from African elephants shot for sport, contending that encouraging wealthy big-game hunters to kill them “By lifting the import ban on elephant trophies in Zimbabwe and Zambia the Trump Administration underscored, once again, the importance of sound scientific wildlife management and regulated President Trump just opened the door to expanded sport hunting of some of the world's most beloved — and imperiled — animals: Africa's elephants and lions. We need your signature today to help stop him. Near the turn of the 20th century, Africa was home to between three and five million elephants. Now less than half a million remain. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it was reversing a ban on the import of legally-hunted elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia, then put a hold on the decision pending further review.
17 Nov 2017 “It's very rare that money raised by legal trade in ivory or rhino husks gets out to protect the animals,” Goodall added. “It goes into the pockets of