TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Conservation groups decried U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision this week to allow trophy hunters who kill elephants in two African countries to bring home the endangered animals’ tusks or other body parts as trophies.
The move triggered protests from conservation groups and a frenzy on social media from opponents who posted pictures of Trump’s adult sons, who are avid hunters, posing with the cut-off tail of a slain elephant and other dead wild animals on Twitter…
Reversing a policy implemented by the Republican president’s Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service disclosed at a meeting in Tanzania organized by a pro-trophy hunting lobbying group that it would allow the import of trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia through 2018.
It said the two countries had developed robust conservation programs that would enhance the survival of African elephants, the world’s largest land animals…
Hunting group Safari Club International, which sponsored the meeting in Africa, praised the decision.”
-Reuters Staff, “Trump elephant trophy-hunting move sparks stampede of outrage,” Reuters, Nov. 16, 2017 10:25am