22 May 2019 While hunting elephants is now legal in Botswana, American sport hunters may not After President Donald Trump tweeted his dissatisfaction with the and a contributor to Wildlife Watch, focusing on the illegal wildlife trade.

18 Mar 2018 Currently the ban on elephant ivory in Canada affects only that from elephants President Donald Trump last week quietly allowed the U.S.  5 Mar 2018 Republicans are now beginning to worry that the trade war Trump could ignite if he doesn't narrow or soften his tariff stance could undermine  6 Mar 2018 The Trump administration will allow Americans to bring tusks and other by illegal poaching and the demand for elephant ivory and the loss of  8 Mar 2018 Investigation finds thriving elephant ivory trade in Australia and New Zealand. Trump later called elephant hunting a "horror show," and said 

16 Mar 2018 Overturning a ban on importing hunting trophies threatens elephants, says Ian Khama. Donald Trump for "encouraging poaching" by overturning a ban on a total ban on ivory trade is the only way to save the elephants.

7 Mar 2018 Illicit demand for elephant ivory has led to devastating losses from illegal poaching as the natural habitat available for the animals to roam has  6 Mar 2018 Trump later called elephant hunting a “horror show” and said that it the demand for elephant ivory and by the loss of habitat, the AP reported. 7 Mar 2018 Premium: Elephant ivory poaching Zimbabwe. A herd of elephants walks past a watering pan supplied with water pumped from boreholes  22 May 2019 While hunting elephants is now legal in Botswana, American sport hunters may not After President Donald Trump tweeted his dissatisfaction with the and a contributor to Wildlife Watch, focusing on the illegal wildlife trade.

16 Nov 2017 A growing number of countries, including China, Singapore and the United States, have banned the trade in ivory. newsletter promo. Sign up for 

Wildlife biologist & conservationist Jeff Corwin reacts to the Trump administration's reversal of a ban on the imports of animal trophies from parts of Africa. The Obama-era ban included include

7 Mar 2018 In November, agency officials moved to lift the ban on elephant deputy director of the wildlife trade initiative at the Natural Resources Defense Council. President Trump's public comments about big-game trophy hunting.

Trump’s two adult sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, are both big-game hunters. Donald Trump Jr has been photographed with the corpse of a elephant, holding its severed tail in his hand. Ed Royce of California, the Republican chairman of the House committee on foreign affairs, Trump Administration Quietly Decides — Again — To Allow Elephant Trophy Imports. The Trump administration has lifted a ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from certain African countries, just over three months after President Trump appeared to pause a first attempt to do so amid public uproar. The Trump administration will allow Americans to bring tusks and other elephant body parts back to this country as trophies, in a pivot away from the support President Trump voiced last year for an Obama-era trophy ban. The decision, Trump admin. to reverse ban on elephant trophies from Africa Wildlife advocates have blamed poaching for a decline in elephant populations. Mr. Trump is not a hunter, unlike his sons Donald Jr. and Eric. In 2012, photographs were posted online of the two men posing with several dead animals during a safari in Zimbabwe, including one that showed Donald Trump Jr. holding a knife in one hand and a severed elephant tail in the other.

6 Apr 2018 National Bureau of Economics Research Fellow Luigi Zingales discusses global trade, Italian political risk and the outlook for the EU overall.

16 Nov 2017 The Trump administration confirmed Thursday it lifted a ban that had prohibited hunters from importing trophies of elephants killed in two African nations. the global community has rallied to stem the ivory trade; and now, the  28 Dec 2017 In a huge step for elephant conservation this week, China finalized its Tell Trump to uphold strong ivory regulations and other protections for 

16 Mar 2018 Overturning a ban on importing hunting trophies threatens elephants, says Ian Khama. Donald Trump for "encouraging poaching" by overturning a ban on a total ban on ivory trade is the only way to save the elephants. 16 Nov 2017 The 2014 restriction on importing elephant trophies included those that were obligations under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2017. 17 Nov 2017 The Trump administration has lifted an Obama-era ban on importing legally its “global leadership position in putting an end to the ivory trade. But African elephant populations continued to plunge, and in 2016, a ban on commercial trade in African elephant ivory went into effect. Then the Trump  5 Oct 2018 While first lady Melania Trump reportedly mourned an ivory burn and toured an elephant conservation site in Kenya on Friday, a dark irony  20 Nov 2017 Are elephants protected under CITES? There has been an international commercial trade ban on ivory since 1989. Story continues below