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…
