Bill to prevent "Trophies" from Africa

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A bill that aims to strengthen the Endangered Species Act is being introduced to prevent hunting trophies coming into the United States. By introducing the bill into the ESA which is already active, it will prevent a rush of trophies coming into the United States before the bill takes effect. This will also eliminate the International Wildlife Conservation Council created by President Trump to promote international trophy hunting.

Currently, lions, elephants, and giraffes are all listed as endangered but trophy hunters can still acquire licenses to hunt these beautiful animals for sport. Trophy Hunting operates under the guise of conservation which couldn't be any further from the truth. They argue that the money spent to hunt these animals goes directly in to conservation efforts which sounds acceptable on paper but those of us who actually investigate these claims will come to realize that it's hypocrisy at its finest.

These claims aim to distract from the endangered status of these animals by promoting conservation at the same time. As I said, it couldn't be more hypocritical to claim your actions have conservation in mind when the very animals you are paying to hunt for sport are endangered and in need of immediate protection. Lions, giraffes, elephants etc., these animals are struggling in the wild due to poaching, habitat loss, and sport hunting, so to argue that you are somehow helping them survive as a species by hunting them is blatantly hypocritical and completely incorrect. They simply want to get their rocks off so to speak by stalking and shooting endangered animals for fun.

The trophies in my opinion are the worst part of the entire thing. Mounting the head of an animal on your wall is beyond twisted but even more so when you consider those animals are in desperate need of protection. What kind of sick and twisted person would want to display the slaughtered remains of an endangered animal? Hunting trophies are despicable and they don't sit in line with the supposed conservation efforts these people claim to be funding. If you care so much about protecting these animals then running around shooting them and making them into trophies to proudly display in your house doesn't correlate with those intentions.

The United States should be ashamed of themselves for allowing trophies of these animals to be imported having the knowledge that these animals are dying out. They are not only allowing this to happen but promoting it by suggesting you bring your trophies back into the US. President Trump has repeatedly made it clear that he doesn't care about the perils of animals but this in particular is by far the worst because these animals are in danger of extinction.

As I said, this bill will tackle those trophies and work towards turning people away from sport hunting because in almost every case, they desire their perverted trophies. By not being allowed to bring them back, my thought is this will act as a deterrent and maybe all of those jerks can donate the money to REAL conservation efforts instead because you know, they care so much.

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