Did maggot overturn the Ivory trade ban?

[MFM008]

Does anyone know about this.

[Cattledog]

1. Apparently yes. Mentioned on "Hardball".

[samplegirl]

2. Sounds like it according to Chris Matthews

[MFM008]

3. son of a fuk ive worked for years

trying to get those...................
unbelievable.

[Old Vet]

4. This administration has no fucking moral compass at all, Motherfuckers

[lkinwi]

5. Disgusting

[oasis]

6. Saw that. This has to get more coverage! nt

[Cattledog]

7. Interior Department to allow imports of elephant and lion trophies from Africa.

With barely contained enthusiasm, Safari Club International (SCI) announced on its own initiative today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has reversed critical elephant protections established during the Obama administration, allowing imports of elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia. For decades, Zimbabwe has been run by a dictator who has targeted and killed his political opponents, and operated the country’s wildlife management program as something of a live auction. Remember, it was Zimbabwe where Walter Palmer shot Cecil, one of the most beloved and well-studied African lions, who was lured out of a national park for the killing. Palmer paid a big fee even though it did irreparable damage to the nation’s reputation.

The United States has listed African elephants under the federal Endangered Species Act, and hunting trophies can only be imported if the federal government finds that killing them positively enhances the survival of the species. Under the prior administration, FWS made the eminently reasonable decision that Zimbabwe – one of the most corrupt countries on earth – was not managing its elephant population in a sustainable manner. Government officials allegedly have been involved in both poaching of elephants and illegal export of ivory tusks. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe even celebrated his birthday last year by feasting on an elephant.



https://blog.humanesociety.org/wayne/2017/11/interior-department-allow-imports-elephant-lion-trophies-africa-reversing-obama-policies.html

[samplegirl]

20. Thanks for posting this!

[octoberlib]

8. Yes , he did. Don Jr. will probably be over there hunting elephants.

[lame54]

9. Lowest of the low

[doc03]

10. Yep a gift to the NRA nt

[CatMor]

11. Was he influenced by China on this matter.

This infuriates me.

[Cattledog]

14. China enacted an ivory ban this year.

For years Chinese government officials were followed around the world, at every meeting, by a single issue: the scores of dead elephants across Africa, and the international community that blamed China for this “ivory “holocaust”.

Even the Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, could not escape lectures on poached elephants and the evils of China’s legal domestic ivory trade from foreign leaders. For years, China deflected the criticism with claims of a long cultural heritage and incremental policies, such as a ban on ivory carving imports two years ago.

And then in June 2016, then president Barack Obama fulfilled a promise made during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, and imposed a near total ban on domestic ivory sales. China followed suit, and officials shut 67 carving workshops and retail stores in March 2017, with another 105 set to close by the end of the year. It was an astonishing U-turn – a far bigger step than campaigners had dared to hope for.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/29/story-behind-china-ivory-ban

[CatMor]

15. Thank you for the info

so good to hear China did this. Now we should all go after trump for what he did.

[Doreen]

18. Would it surprise you if they turned that over now

because of trump?

[MFM008]

12. ..................

[Kingofalldems]

13. Shameful.

[Freethinker65]

16. Obviously done to appease the middle class, out of work coal miners, and the like

Those are the people most likely hurt by not being able to import their foreign exotic game trophies

[hamsterjill]

17. Every day, my hatred for all that is Trump grows.

He has no soul.

[Madam45for2923]

19. Donald & Hillary, twinsies!