Trump to consider elephant trophy imports on 'case-by-case' basis

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced last week that it will now consider all permits for importing elephant trophies from African nations on a “case-by-case basis," breaking from President Trump's earlier promises to maintain an Obama-era ban on the practice.

In a formal memorandum issued on Thursday, FWS said it will withdraw its 2017 Endangered Species Act (ESA) findings for trophies of African elephants from Zimbabwe and Zambia, “effective immediately.”

The memo said “the findings are no longer effective for making individual permit determinations for imports of sport-hunted African elephant trophies.”

In its place, FWS will instead “grant or deny permits to import a sport-hunted trophy on a case-by-case basis.”

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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/376839-trump-admin-to-consider-elephant-trophy-imports-on-case-by-case

[jmowreader]

1. Eric's been hunting again?

[elehhhhna]

4. No, he'll sell importation. to his comtributors.

[Angry Dragon]

2. No Trumps Need Apply..........NTNA

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Trump is the most disgusting piece of human garbage ever

no words can express

[trueblue2007]

6. WOULD Trump allow his head mounted on a nice oak wood frame ??

[sinkingfeeling]

5. NO!!!!!!

[no_hypocrisy]

7. I like the idea of activists going to Africa, finding elephants and rhinos

and dying their tusks and horns an indelible hot pink, rendering them useless and saving the lives of the remaining herds.

[jmowreader]

9. I do too, but it won't work for rhinos

The biggest user of rhino horn is the Traditional Chinese Medicine industry, who grinds it up. It would work the same (not at all, but don't tell them that) no matter what color it was.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

8. Rich thrill killers. May they all burn & stink & rot in hell!

[lunasun]

12. ++++++YES

[burrowowl]

13. Ditto!

Especially dumpsters et alii

[They_Live]

10. Personally?

wow.

[summer_in_TX]

11. What a POS.

And of course we all know that those permits will be given out in ways that will benefit him and his business interests somehow.

[Bayard]

14. This makes my blood boil

I don't suppose Zimbabwe or Zambia would consider putting a stop to this? The only way I can think of is if it became more profitable not to allow the plunder. I've never understood how this is "sport" anyway. Its not like you can miss an elephant from a mile away.

So FWS is going to ignore their own findings. Kind of like ignoring climate change. Where the hell do you hang a huge elephant's head anyway?

I don't have a problem with seeing Rump and his boys' heads on pikes.....

[Bayard]

15. Trump Backtracks on Elephant Trophy Ban This Must Be Stopped

https://www.care2.com/causes/trump-backtracks-on-elephant-trophy-ban-this-must-be-stopped.html

Trump himself acknowledged that corrupt governments were misappropriating trophy hunt money. In January, Trump said the following of the trophy hunt rule change: “I thought it was terrible. That was done by a very high-level government person. As soon as I heard about it, I turned it around the same day.” So how is it that the FWS has turned it back around again and is pressing forward on allowing an undetermined number of elephant trophy imports? Trump has not commented on the issue since the FWS’s latest action.

[crazycatlady]

16. He's doing this for Beavis and Butthead