U.S. Lifts Ban On Importing Elephant Trophies From Zimbabwe And Zambia
by Laurel Wamsley
Nov 16, 2017
3 minutes
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it has lifted an Obama-era ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from Zimbabwe and Zambia.
The Service said it had found that allowing trophy imports would help the conservation of elephants in those countries, a finding that allows it to authorize the import of the African elephant under the terms of the Endangered Species Act, which lists the African elephant as threatened.
"Legal, well-regulated
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