Phil1111 1,183 #1 March 8, 2018 The Trump administration has quietly decided once again to allow Americans to import the body parts of African elephants shot for sport.... despite presidential tweets decrying the practice as a "horror show."... Trump's two adult sons are trophy hunters. A photo of Donald Trump Jr. holding a knife and the bloody severed tail of an elephant he reportedly killed in Zimbabwe in 2011 has sparked outrage among animal rights activists.... Zinke is also an avid hunter who after arriving at Interior last year ordered the arcade game "Big Buck Hunter Pro" to be installed in the employee cafeteria at the agency's Washington headquarters, a move he said would promote wildlife and habitat conservation. In June, the department removed longstanding protections for grizzly bears near Yellowstone National Park, a step to potentially allow them to be hunted. The Fish and Wildlife Service also quietly began issuing permits in October allowing African lions killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia to be imported.... The world's largest land mammal, the African elephant has been classified as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act since 1979.... demand for elephant ivory has led to devastating losses from illegal poaching as the natural habitat available for the animals to roam has also dwindled by more than half. As a result, the number of African elephants has shrunk from about 5 million a century ago to about 400,000 remaining. And that number continues to decline each year. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/07/trump-administration-once-again-lifts-ban-on-importing-elephant-trophies.html Picture(attachment) of Donald Trump Jr. Holding a trophy souvenir of his hunt. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakee 1,595 #2 March 8, 2018 Elephants for me fall into the same group as the great apes. They are so intelligent, so emotionally sophisticated, and the death of a family / group member has such an effect on the rest of the group that anyone who derives pleasure from killing them must be nothing short of a stone cold psycopath. Colour me completely unsurprised that Trump's progeny are part of that set. Do you want to have an ideagasm? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil1111 1,183 #3 March 8, 2018 Some hunters have whats called trophy rooms. Basically a man cave where all of the mounted trophy's are displayed. About 25 years ago I was in the house of a dentist who had a trophy room. In it was a full size mount of a grizzly bear he had shot. It was about 4' tall. A cub. Absolutely disgraceful. Disgraceful that his guide had allowed him to shoot it. Disgraceful that he had shot it. That a taxidermist had mounted it. That he displayed it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
