Trump Admin. Lifts Ban On Imports of Elephant Hunting Trophies

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(Reuters) - Conservation groups on Thursday decried U.S. President Donald Trump's decision 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 sons Donald Jr. and Eric, who are avid hunters, posing with the cut-off tail of a slain elephant and other dead wild animals on Twitter.

"I'm shocked and outraged," Elly Pepper, a deputy director of the National Resources Defense Counsel, said in a phone interview. "I expect nothing less from our president, and if he thinks this is going to go down without a fight, he's wrong."

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 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.

The move came the same week Zimbabwe had a coup that left its president, Robert Mugabe, under house arrest.

"It strains credulity to suggest that local science-based factors have been met to justify this change," M. Sanjayan, chief executive of Conservation International, said in a statement.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-lifts-ban-on-imports-of-elephant-hunting-trophies/

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The administration imo is slowly poisoning the world 

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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 group that it would allow the import of trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia through 2018.

Is that all Trump is capable of? Reversing policies that Obama created? 

[Eighteen 5,430]

omg there are animals on the brink of extinction because of this trade

 

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Don’t be surprised.. he’s a businessman  

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I hope this means that orange orangutan is in market 

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1 minute ago, Lion Heart said:

 

Hugs your face... Dont worry it will be at most like 3 years.. keep your chin up. 

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1 hour ago, Eighteen said:

omg there are animals on the brink of extinction because of this trade

 

Conservatives don’t care. They don’t understand that extinction WILL affect us even if they think elephants don’t matter to the ecosystem.

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whY i nOw aGree witH truMP

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F**k Trump. F**k him and his stupid butt ugly sons. I hope they get trampled by a stampede of angry elephants. 

Impeach the c*nt.

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2 hours ago, JustinTrudeau said:

Is that all Trump is capable of? Reversing policies that Obama created? 

Yes

The bad part is thanks to the GOP congress being totally useless during Obama's admin., he had to sign 275 executive orders to get anything done. Those can be just as easily reversed though now that Trump has the same power.

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A fun bit of trivia though - Trump constantly criticized Obama's use of executive orders saying it was an "abuse of his power" and the president's authority needed to be limited. Here's how many the past three presidents have signed:

Clinton - 364
Bush - 291
Obama - 275

Yet Trump had nothing but love for the white other presidents  plus he's already on track to sign more EO's than all three of them. As of mid-October, he had signed 50 which is more than any president in the last 50 years at this point in their first term. Pot, meet kettle.