Animal Wellness Action and Animal Wellness Foundation Pushing Enforcement of Our Federal Anti-cruelty and Conservation Laws Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. House Committee on Rules made three pro-animal protection amendments to H.R. 3055 in order, allowing each to proceed to the House floor for consideration. The amendments have broad bipartisan support and seek to dedicate funding … Read more
The U.S. can play a major role by halting imports of sport-hunted trophies of threatened and endangered species According to a report issued by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service this spring, the United States granted import permits between 2013 and 2017 for 32,100 black bears, 10,122 sandhill cranes, 2,645 African lions, 2,552 Chacma baboons, and 2,148 mountain … Read more
Southern African nation announces it will reverse the country’s five-year-old trophy hunting ban and also work to weaken the global ivory trade ban “All politics is local,” is a tire-worn phrase in the realm of elections and politics. The phrase captures a key truth of politics. But there’s more to politics than that, especially in … Read more
Botswana is hurtling toward a dreadful and dangerous back-tracking on its national wildlife protection policy. The country’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, is considering the idea of repealing or weakening the southern African nation’s landmark and foresighted 2014 policy of forbidding the killing of wildlife, including by foreign trophy hunters. The country’s leaders, who are undoubtedly motivated … Read more
While most Americans oppose trophy hunting – treating it as far more unjustified than hunting animals for meat – they have a special revulsion for trophy hunting of threatened and endangered species. Think Walter Palmer of lion-hunting infamy. When it comes to hunting elephants, rhinos, or other mega-fauna, the sane person not only objects to gratuitous killing … Read more