Trumps new Int'l Wildlife Conservation Council's most famous member killed Cecil The Lion

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Trump’s new International Wildlife Conservation Council is dominated by group who’s most famous member killed Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe

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Cecil the lion gained fame after he was killed by Safari Club International member Walter Palmer during an illegal hunt in Zimbabwe. Paula French/ZUMA


Reality Stars, Trophy Hunters, and Gun Boosters: Meet the Trump Administration’s Wildlife Conservation Council
“It’s really embarrassing. I just question the qualifications of each and every one of these people.”
STEPHANIE MENCIMERMAR. 16, 2018 9:14 AM

The Trump administration has launched a commission at the Interior Department to promote big-game trophy hunting and the “economic benefits that result from US citizens traveling to foreign nations to engage in hunting.” The council, which will cost taxpayers $250,000 a year, is charged with making recommendations to Secretary Ryan Zinke about removing barriers to importing trophy hunting animals—such as the recently overturned ban on elephant and lion trophies from some countries—and relaxing legal restrictions on hunting and importing endangered species.

The members of the International Wildlife Conservation Council, which is holding its first meeting Friday, include a reality-TV safari hunting guide, a former beauty queen, gun industry representatives, members and affiliates of a controversial trophy hunting group, and a veterinarian associated with an exotic animal breeding facility in Florida that sells endangered animals to roadside zoos.

“It’s really embarrassing,” says Masha Kalinina, the international trade policy specialist for the wildlife department at the Humane Society International. “I just question the qualifications of each and every one of these people. Notably missing from this trophy hunting council are legitimate representatives of the conservation community with proper scientific credentials and a record of successful conservation programs, along with wildlife law enforcement experts and biologists who have no financial stake in promoting trophy hunting.”

The council’s charter calls hunting “an enhancement to foreign wildlife conservation and survival.” Along with pushing to relax imports of trophy animals, it will also review the way the US complies with an international treaty designed to protect endangered plants and animals that guides regulation of the exotic animal trade. But the membership of the council seems heavily weighted toward people who think the best way to conserve wildlife is to kill it.



MORE (enough to make you sick):
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/reality-stars-trophy-hunters-and-gun-boosters-meet-the-trump-administrations-wildlife-conservation-council/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Fuck no! Just no!

[democratisphere]

2. I am GD furious over this.

drumpf loves to stick his puny finger in everyone's eye about everything.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. By contrast, in Germany to become a Jaeger (royal huntsman),

you need more than gun safety. You have to know everything about each kind of species of animal within the country: habitat, feeding, mating, babies and aged animals, almost to the point of being a veterinarian. You have to know the most humane method of both hunting and euthanasia. If you shoot an animal to hunt, you must consume or give it to another to consume. No indiscriminate murder. And this is just to be legally permitted to even HOLD a gun.

Trump just hired a group of murderers.

[hlthe2b]

4. GASP!!!

They are all Mussolini on steroids, IMO...I put NOTHING past anyone in this administration.

[Kirk Lover]

5. This will be made right. We have to live with this for now....but I'm talking to myself and

telling myself that this shit is TEMPORARY. This makes my blood boil - I wish I had a punching bag that had dirtbag don's face on it. That is why I have to talk myself off the ledge.

[dalton99a]

6. His entire "administration" is an obscenity.