United States: Trump administration allows import of elephant trophies

US hunters are again allowed to import elephant trophies killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia. Animal rights groups are protesting.

In the United States, the decision is shocking. Especially since the arguments on which it is based are considered to be misleading. Reversing a ban imposed under Barack Obama, the administration of Donald Trump has just authorized the import of African elephant tusks, a threatened species whose population is rapidly decreasing.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, announces on its website that it will "issue licenses to import elephant trophies hunted for recreational purposes in Zimbabwe from January 21, 2016 and until December 31, 2018

The animal welfare associations are protesting against this decision. For, according to the Great Elephant Census, the number of pachyderms fell by 30% between 2 007 and 2 014 in Africa, with a fall of 6% for Zimbabwe.

"Wrong behavior of the Trump administration. 100 elephants are already killed every day. This will lead to more poaching, "denounces The Elephant Project on Twitter.

As for the US Center for Biodiversity, he regrets that by allowing "the heads, feet and tails of dead elephants to enter the United States", Donald Trump "legalizes the killing of endangered elephants". Many actions have also been posted on Twitter under the hashtag #BeKindToElephants.