The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently released a rule that will make it harder to import elephant hunting trophies from African countries that can't prove they're adequately protecting the ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed new restrictions today on U.S. imports of sport-hunted African elephant trophies and live trade. The proposal halts trophy imports from ...

Today’s updated rule only allows trophy and live elephant imports from countries that ... a major importer of hunting trophies globally, along with the European Union. Today’s restrictions tighten the ...

Botswana has previously given 8,000 elephants to countries like Angola and ... Germany is the EU’s largest importer of African elephant trophies and hunting trophies overall, according to ...

Germany is at odds with Botswana over a unique resource — Botswana's elephant ... a number of African nations," said CBS. As talks of banning trophy hunts continue, these countries are ...

In a move that is likely to put a major dent in South Africa’s canned hunting ... has already stopped all imports of elephant trophies from those two countries because of structural problems ...

Trophy hunters in the 19th century considered elephants, buffalo ... and shrublands in southern African countries. They typically live from 35-40 years. The IUCN considers the white rhinoceros ...

often to southern Africa, and pay thousands of pounds to legally shoot animals, such as lions and elephants. With the right paperwork, they can then bring trophies, such as stuffed heads or horns ...