In the face of steep population decline, the United States has moved to restrict the import of live African elephants and elephant hunting trophies. Strengthening the Endangered Species Act ...
WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today adopted new restrictions on U.S. imports of African elephant hunting trophies and live elephants but stopped short of a total ban on imports.
According to a report by the Humane Society International in 2021, Germany is the European Union’s largest importer of African elephant trophies, and hunting trophies in general. Botswana and ...