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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back – Trump Administration Changes Its Mind On Trophy Hunting Again

Mar 10, 2018 · by Nikela Volunteer/Guest blogger · In: All Posts, trophy hunting Tagged: AWF, CITES, Conservation Action Trust, Donald Trump, import ban, IWCC, trophy hunting, USFWS

The US will now consider issuing permits to import elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Tanzania on a case by case basis in the face of widespread condemnation from conservation groups. Can the Trump administration make up it’s mind? In a formal memo last week, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) agreed to allow trophy hunting of African elephants and lions, despite President Donald Trump’s decision last year to uphold a ban on importing elephant trophies from some southern African countries. The decision comes nearly four months after Trump stepped in to halt his own administration’s decision to again allow…

Sad Fact: U.S. the biggest importer of endangered African wildlife trophies

Feb 24, 2018 · by Nikela Volunteer/Guest blogger · In: All Posts, endangered, trophy hunting, wildlife conservation Tagged: CITES, Conservation Action Trust, Donald Trump, endangered animals, IUCN, trophy hunting

The United States remains the biggest importer of endangered African wildlife trophies in the world, in spite of Donald Trump’s recent public comments overturning a decision by the US Department of Interior, to allow elephant trophies into the United States. In 2016 alone the US imported 3,249 or 60% of the animal trophies from just six African countries – Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. According to the trade database of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) One of the most popular big game mammals for trophy hunters to kill…

Unbanning U.S. wildlife trophy imports: Trump jams a spanner in the works

Feb 2, 2018 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: All Posts, canned hunting, trophy hunting Tagged: Conservation Action Trust, Donald Trump, trophy hunting

In a surprising move, President Donald Trump has left-footed his own Department of Interior’s attempts to overturn Obama’s ban on wildlife trophy imports. But leaked emails suggest the Department is not backing off, writes Don Pinnock. President Trump has made it clear he dislikes almost everything that former president Barak Obama did. So it must have seemed a shoe-in for the new Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, an enthusiastic big game hunter, to overturn Obama’s ban on wildlife trophy imports from Africa. Zinke had plenty of support. Last year eight hunting organisations petitioned the secretary – whose office is decked with…

A look at who opposed Trump lifting import ban of elephant trophies

Nov 21, 2017 · by Nikela Volunteer/Guest blogger · In: All Posts, Elephants, trophy hunting, wildlife conservation Tagged: ban, Conservation Action Trust, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Donald Trump, elephant conservation, Humane Society, Leonardo DiCaprio, trophy hunting, United States, USFWS, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Bad news for elephants swept the internet like wildfire. However, the response was swift and the ban on elephant trophies may yet stay in place. US President Donald Trump and his Department of Interior Affairs Secretary Ryan Zinke have halted the reversal of a ban onLouzel Lombard Steyn importation of elephant hunt trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia. The sudden decision follows global outcry and protests from animal rights groups. The announcement was first tweeted by the American President, saying, “[I’ve] put big game trophy decision on hold until such time as I review all conservation facts. Under study for years. Will…