Trump's plan to allow hunting trophies to be brought home may come to a halt. This was announced by the American president himself a few days after the news of the lifting of this ban, introduced by the previous administration
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Trump's plan to allow hunting trophies to be brought home may come to a halt. This was announced by the American president himself a few days after the news of the lifting of this ban, introduced by the previous administration.
With a tweet on his Twitter profile, Trump has just made it known that he has put his plan on hold. Could it have been the tremendous pressure on social media? Of course, the last word has not yet been said.
Lately, Trump it had changed the law that prohibited American hunters from cutting elephants to pieces and taking their heads home as trophies. By lifting the ban, hunters could have resumed this macabre practice applied in countries like Zambia and Zimbabwe.
A global protest was born. Animal rights activists and not from all over the world have been unleashed against Trump, demanding an immediate step back.
- elephants risk extinction. The ivory trade is generally banned internationally. For years, the United States has been a global leader in the conservation of these majestic creatures, the numbers of which have been rapidly dwindling due to increasing poaching in Africa. Their capture has often been linked to international criminals and even terrorist groups because ivory is extremely valuable on the black market.
Big-game trophy decision will be announced next week but will be very hard pressed to change my mind that this horror show in any way helps conservation of Elephants or any other animal.
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2017
Allowing the importation of elephant trophies would be very serious in the first place because it promotes the illegal ivory trade. The more legal hunting is allowed and encouraged, the more ivory there will be in the flow of trade. This makes it more difficult to isolate and end illegal trade. Elephant populations in these countries are already at their last limit. In Zambia, their number has dropped to fewer than 22.000, only 10% of the 200.000 recorded in 1972. Second, such a decision would economically harm some countries such as Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Other "trophies", for example, parts of lions, can still enter the United States from Zambia and Zimbabwe thanks, so to speak, to another decision introduced by the American administration just this year.
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It is not yet known whether Trump will decide to take a step back. In the meantime we can do something in our own small way by signing the Petizione di Aavaz.
Francesca Mancuso
