The airline has officially rescinded the transportation ban on legally harvested animals. We have shifted our focus toward monitoring the implementation of the new, more precise policy to ensure it aligns with CITES regulations.
November 6, 2015
Final supporters
I am signing this petition to signify that I am in direct opposition to the recent airline transportation ban on legally harvested animals. The decision to take a blanket approach to the transportation of these animals is an inappropriate response and incorrectly fails to distinguish between the trade and transportation of legally acquired wildlife specimens, and the illegal trade in wildlife specimens.
Hunting-related tourism is a primary source of funding for wildlife agencies and personnel, anti-poaching efforts, habitat preservation and species enrichment. Impairing the transport of legally harvested animals will cause a drastic reduction in consumer travel and thus a critical source of conservation support. In the end, transportation bans will directly affect the future of wildlife and economies on a local and global level.
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement between governments, already in place to oversee international trade in specimens of selected species and to apply certain controls to oversee the transportation of these species.
As a hunter and conservationist, I remain steadfast in opposing all poaching and unethical hunting behavior including the illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife specimens.
As a consumer of the services you provide, I strongly urge you to reverse the decision to ban the transportation of legally harvested animals. If you do not, this policy decision will weigh heavily on my choice of future airline providers and I will encourage all of my contacts to make the same consideration.
Updates
Reached 2,500 supporters
September 8, 2015
September 3, 2015
Legal counsel is currently reviewing the language of the airline policy to identify specific regulatory contradictions. I have requested a formal meeting with the executive board to present our argument regarding the distinction between legal transit and illicit trade.
Reached 1,000 supporters
August 30, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
August 26, 2015
937 Comments
I don't hunt, but you are restricting a perfectly legal activity by imposing idiotic rules in response to a single event that was sensationalized by the leftist media in the US. Please change your policy into one that supports legal hunting.
Many poor areas rely on income from legal hunting to provide game protection and enforcement of anti-poaching laws. Reducing the legal hunting economy there will cause the deaths of many more game animals than legal hunting, in many cases by barbaric methods.
As a semi-regular hunting destination traveler on domestic and international flights, I cannot imagine a clear conscience for an airline that bans the lawful and safe transport of legally harvested game animals. What's next? No fish allowed?
Hunter's dollars through trophy fees raises money for the goverment to stop poaching all over Africa. Without trophy fees, the government can't afford to police poaching. Poaching one of the biggest threats to the animals named on the airlines list.
Actions should be based on fact and science, however, the actions of the airlines were based on emotions and public outcry. Outcry by people who have no idea the positive impact hunters have on conservation (species and habitat) and communities.
Let all those who suffer from Walt Disney anthropomorphism cuddle up to Simba or one of his cousins.
All trophy hunted animals were created by GOD. Killing animals for fun, pleasure, sport, or for a frivolous trophy is a grave sin. Animals are living, feeling beings. They are not innanimate objects.
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The airline has officially rescinded the transportation ban on legally harvested animals. We have shifted our focus toward monitoring the implementation of the new, more precise policy to ensure it aligns with CITES regulations.
November 6, 2015
Final supporters
I am signing this petition to signify that I am in direct opposition to the recent airline transportation ban on legally harvested animals. The decision to take a blanket approach to the transportation of these animals is an inappropriate response and incorrectly fails to distinguish between the trade and transportation of legally acquired wildlife specimens, and the illegal trade in wildlife specimens.
Hunting-related tourism is a primary source of funding for wildlife agencies and personnel, anti-poaching efforts, habitat preservation and species enrichment. Impairing the transport of legally harvested animals will cause a drastic reduction in consumer travel and thus a critical source of conservation support. In the end, transportation bans will directly affect the future of wildlife and economies on a local and global level.
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement between governments, already in place to oversee international trade in specimens of selected species and to apply certain controls to oversee the transportation of these species.
As a hunter and conservationist, I remain steadfast in opposing all poaching and unethical hunting behavior including the illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife specimens.
As a consumer of the services you provide, I strongly urge you to reverse the decision to ban the transportation of legally harvested animals. If you do not, this policy decision will weigh heavily on my choice of future airline providers and I will encourage all of my contacts to make the same consideration.
Updates
Reached 2,500 supporters
September 8, 2015
September 3, 2015
Legal counsel is currently reviewing the language of the airline policy to identify specific regulatory contradictions. I have requested a formal meeting with the executive board to present our argument regarding the distinction between legal transit and illicit trade.
Reached 1,000 supporters
August 30, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
August 26, 2015
937 Comments
By banning the import of legally hunted animals that are NOT endangered as already determined by the CITES agreement you are only harming the wildlife more by discouraging the hunters that provide the majority of money that protects these animals!
I don't hunt, but you are restricting a perfectly legal activity by imposing idiotic rules in response to a single event that was sensationalized by the leftist media in the US. Please change your policy into one that supports legal hunting.
Many poor areas rely on income from legal hunting to provide game protection and enforcement of anti-poaching laws. Reducing the legal hunting economy there will cause the deaths of many more game animals than legal hunting, in many cases by barbaric methods.
As a semi-regular hunting destination traveler on domestic and international flights, I cannot imagine a clear conscience for an airline that bans the lawful and safe transport of legally harvested game animals. What's next? No fish allowed?
Hunter's dollars through trophy fees raises money for the goverment to stop poaching all over Africa. Without trophy fees, the government can't afford to police poaching. Poaching one of the biggest threats to the animals named on the airlines list.
Actions should be based on fact and science, however, the actions of the airlines were based on emotions and public outcry. Outcry by people who have no idea the positive impact hunters have on conservation (species and habitat) and communities.
Let all those who suffer from Walt Disney anthropomorphism cuddle up to Simba or one of his cousins.
All trophy hunted animals were created by GOD. Killing animals for fun, pleasure, sport, or for a frivolous trophy is a grave sin. Animals are living, feeling beings. They are not innanimate objects.
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By banning the import of legally hunted animals that are NOT endangered as already determined by the CITES agreement you are only harming the wildlife more by discouraging the hunters that provide the majority of money that protects these animals!