Biden Administration Breaks Deal on Big-Game Hunting

[douglas9]

Federal regulators have tossed a last-minute Trump-era agreement with the National Rifle Association about wildlife conservation which critics said was designed to help trophy hunters.

Aurelia Skipwith, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service under Trump, signed the agreement on Jan. 13, just seven days before President Joseph Biden was sworn in.

“The service’s memorandum of understanding with the National Rifle Association was not adequately reviewed by agency staff or the Department of the Interior solicitor’s office,” said an agency spokesperson. “Therefore, the service terminated the agreement.”

The 10-year agreement called for the agency to work with the NRA to develop “science-based strategies” for wildlife conservation. The agreement also called for the Fish and Wildlife Service and the NRA to promote hunter education, expand access to shooting ranges and hunting and promote marksmanship and shooting safety.

Brett Hartl of the Center for Biological Diversity, which asked that the agreement be rescinded, said the likely goal of the agreement is “increasing the opportunity for trophy hunters to kill big game animals and put their heads on walls.”

https://www.dcreport.org/2021/08/25/biden-administration-breaks-deal-on-big-game-hunting/

[niyad]

1. The headline writer should have made clear that it was a t**** deal.

[ananda]

6. Thank you. That was a VERY poorly worded headline.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Yup. What a stinker headline. . . . nt

[Marthe48]

16. Headlines slant

Most headlines slant for conservatives.

It is persuasive writing at its worst.

But, regardless, yay for the game animals!

[MrModerate]

2. This is what the NRA used to do. What it was founded to do, in fact.

The organization was hijacked by zealots and arms manufacturers in the 1970s, and America has been the sadder for it.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Yeah, they like science when it serves their purposes

otherwise, not so much

[Harker]

4. Uday and Qusay are heartbroken. n/t

[NCjack]

10. +1. A possible trophy safari business by the Trump shooters was just flushed.

[Harker]

12. The ghouls.

I think there's something deeply wrong with anyone who kills anyone for sport.

To pose, grinning, for a photograph while holding a knife and a dead elephant's tail says a lot about the mighty hunters.

[packman]

5. A USA gov. agency taking its policy marching orders from the NRA

What next - Amazon running Dept. of Commerce? Ford and Tesla running Transportation? I ask (already knowing the answer) is America run by big industry?

[thesquanderer]

7. USPS run DeJoy, an advocate of other delivery services, Education run by...

... DeVos, an advocate of private education

[thesquanderer]

8. Missing from the article: What provision(s) in the agreement actually facilitated trophy hunting? nt

[mountain grammy]

9. January 13th..

fucking bastards.

[George II]

13. Lousy headline - Biden broke TRUMP'S deal. It looks like Biden is going back on his word.

[TlalocW]

14. If it pisses off the NRA

Then chances are it's a good thing.

TlalocW

[fwvinson]

15. Only the extremely rich can afford a "big-game hunt"

[Escurumbele]

17. Crook trump made deals with the Taliban, with the NRA, what a low life that guy is.

You can dress a monkey with gold, give it gold toilets, but the money will always remain a monkey...in this case a buffoon!

I just hope everything comes to life about the corruption of the trump administration, if we can call it "administration".

[red dog 1]

19. More proof that Trumplethinskin is a truly evil SOB