In Africa he had mercilessly shot a rare black rhino, now the Trump administration gives permission for this hunter to take the trophy to Michigan.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himIn Africa he had mercilessly shot a rare black rhinoceros, now the Trump administration gives permission for this hunter to take part of the trophy to Michigan (head and horns).
The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists i black rhinos as an endangered species precisely because they are left 5.500 in the wild. Almost half live in Namibia, where unfortunately hunters are allowed to kill up to five rhinos a year.
Chris D. Peyerk of Shelby Township, Michigan is one of the American hunters who flew to Africa in search of trophies, paying 400mila U.S. dollars to receive permission to brutally kill a black rhino that lived inside a national park in Namibia.
After obtaining his sadistic result, he applied to bring part of his trophy to the United States and apparently obtained the authorization from the Trump administration and this only encourages even more a market, that of legal hunting. which is not affected by the crisis. On the contrary.
"Legal and well-regulated hunting as part of a robust management program can foster the conservation of some species by providing incentives to local communities," he said. Laury Parramore, spokesperson for the Wildlife Service.
Then there is illegal hunting: rhinos are killed for their horns which are then sold on the black market for use in traditional Chinese medicine and as trophies. For decades, no import permits had been issued, then Obama had authorized three and now Trump two more.
The Humane Society criticized the federal decision to allow Peyerk to import the taxidermal remains of the black rhino.
"We urge our federal government to end this scheme that delivers endangered rhino trophies to affluent Americans as we see a major blow to rhino conservation," said Kitty Block, head of the Humane Society of the United States. .
"While we cannot go back in time to save this animal, the administration can prevent the United States from further contributing to the disappearance of this species by refusing future import permits for black rhino trophies."
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Dominella Trunfio
