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Stop all U.S. Elephant Trophy Hunting Imports; limit the number of elephant sport-hunted trophies from 2 to ZERO, per hunter, per year.

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June Corriveau
11 years ago

Hunter make me sick. Cowards

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Debra Bishop
11 years ago

It's time to end this senseless, barbaric "sport".

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marcy habekorn
11 years ago

beyond thinkable that these men think is is macho to take and hurt these animal

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maria di rienzo
11 years ago

ENOUGH!

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Candace Giger
11 years ago

This is murder.

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paul and patsy carter
11 years ago

Please stop ALL U.S. Elephant Trophy Hunting Imports; limit the number of African elephant sport-hunted trophies that an individual can import from 2 to ZERO, per hunter, per year.! ...trophies from 2 to ZERO, per hunter, per year. Team Elephant Team Elephant Seattle The Petition 3 Highlights 1202 Comments 4365 Signatures Stop all U.S. Elephant Trophy Hunting Imports There is no difference between Ivory Poaching & Trophy Hunting elephants; killing elephants is killing elephants. Given the current statistics on elephant population declines, an elephant is killed every 15 minutes. At this rate elephants are expected to be extinct in 10-11 years. Trophy Hunting Elephants is contributing to this slaughter. The U.S. National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking & Commercial Ban on Trade in Elephant Ivory limits the number of African elephant sport-hunted trophies that an individual can import to 2 per hunter, per year. This is a contradictory loophole in the U.S. National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking & Commercial Ban on Trade in Elephant Ivory! To ban "commercial" elephant imports and then to allow trophy hunted "personal" imports is contradictory to making positive efforts to save this species. The trophy hunting industry is alive and well. The Safari Club International is aggressively defending "their right" to trophy hunt elephants. The SCI is currently involved or has recently been involved in the following cases: Elephant Importation Ban (SCI v. Jewell ), and the Elephant Importation Ban Freedom of Information Act Request (SCI v. FWS) ... The SCI will be filing a new lawsuit to challenge the FWS’s decision to continue Zimbabwe’s importation ban for 2015 and into the future. Many trophy hunting companies are also defending "their right" to kill elephants. For example, Comre Safaris has recently stated "Go ahead and kill the elephants. And rhinos and tigers and all the rest of your favorite Lion King animals. It might be th

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Tina
11 years ago

Trophy hunters are just as bad as poachers!!

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Cynthia LaChester
11 years ago

Stop all tropy hunting in Africa

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Anne D
11 years ago

Stop this NOW!!!

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Barbara lewis
11 years ago

Stop all of this now!

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robert demes
11 years ago

STOP NOW

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Joseph T Bator
11 years ago

Signed because it is the right thing to do.

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Beverly Rowell
11 years ago

Trophy hunting should be illegal everywhere- a senseless, brutal practice!

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Cassidy Bible
11 years ago

Stop the slaughtering of animals by whatever means necessary!!!

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sonia milton
11 years ago

This is an expensive way to get an erection. Murdering animals is not a sport.

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Barbara Levine
11 years ago

We need to put a stop to this now!!! Disgusting!!!

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Nancy Franklin
11 years ago

These animals are innocent victims of stupid humans. They are endangered and are not a threat to the morons who "hunt" them. This needs to stop.

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Eva guibert
11 years ago

stop all hunting.

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Amina Tron
11 years ago

We need to protect our endangered animals. Trophy hunting is disgraceful and should end for good.

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DEBBIE DITTO
11 years ago

killing elephants is killing elephants...period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!