Chelsea Clinton Responds to Trump Policy on Elephant Parts

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Chelsea Clinton on Trump's Reversal of the Elephant Trophy Ban

By Chelsea Clinton

7-8 minutes

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Barbara Kinney / Clinton Foundation

In recent years, the world has made important progress in the global fight to save elephants from extinction. Governments, businesses, conservation organizations, activist organizations, and citizens have come together to stop the killing of elephants, interrupt the trafficking of ivory, and reduce ivory demand. We’ve brought poaching rates down and elephant birth rates have gone up. This would not have been possible without strong U.S. leadership.

Elephants are dying at alarming rates—and our government just gave the green-light to hunt them and bring their body parts home.

The decision this week to reverse an Obama-era regulation and allow hunters to bring home barbaric “elephant trophies” from Zimbabwe and Zambia is a deeply alarming step backward. Because of the U.S. Endangered Species Act, the U.S. government is required to protect elephants in other countries—but instead of protecting them, the Trump administration is signaling it will be complicit in accelerating their extinction.

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