This is nothing short of fucking outrageous! Every other country on the planet has banned poached ivory or ivory outright.
Goddamn Trump for this.
This is nauseating. And misbegotten trophies moving the elephant population closer to extinction is a rather profound metaphor.
When will one of these “trophies” be spotted hanging on a wall at Mar-a-Shithole?
Given that the presidential offspring love big-game hunting, odds are they have one already!
“With tanks in the streets, whoever is actually running the Zimbabwe government just can’t be trusted to protect elephants from slaughter by poachers.”
Clearly “Tanya Sanerib, a lawyer with the advocacy group Center for Biological Diversity” doesn’t understand Republican/NRA logic.
By encouraging the “legal” killing of elephants for trophies, you reduce the poaching cuz the legal hunters will be out there protecting the herds for themselves. In the same way “that permitting elephants from Zimbabwe and Zambia to be brought back as trophies will raise money for conservation programs” raises money by making it “practical” from a capitalism perspective to “conserve” the animals for hunting. Save them to make it easier to kill them. Duh
And WTF, NRA guy? Hunting may be a legitimate tool in “sound wildlife management” but not when THE SPECIES IS ENDANGERED!
Former US Presidents were too soft in their negotiations with the elephants.
But, really, what a dick move. I think @seamus42 is right – one of the Trumppinos already smuggled some dead elephant pieces into the country. Now they will have cover for that. “It was a gift, but I don’t remember who gave it to me.”
Oh goodie. Now Uday and Qusay can bring home the animals they murder.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service, recently installed the arcade game “Big Buck Hunter Pro” in the employee cafeteria at the agency’s Washington headquarters, a move he said would promote wildlife and habitat conservation.
Nah. Just another GOP pol who learned everything he cared to learn about leadership in the hallways of middle school.
It’s kind of perfect that a Republican president would make his party’s animal mascot extinct. Poor elephants. Poor humanity.
These are not for poached elephant trophies. “Poached” is illegally shot. These are for elephants that are legally shot.
It’s an important distinction, regardless of what your personal beliefs are on big game hunting.
Fix the headline, @TPM
How do you “hunt” an elephant? This is not a sport. And let’s cry as we say goodbye to the largest land mammal, an animal that grieves and honors its dead.
Personally, i support a ban on the people who would import body parts of poached animals, but that’s just me. Those people should be poached like an egg.
Key point is it is retroactive to Jan 2016, almost 2 years past.
Gosh, who could this benefit?
Oh fuck that. It’s the about as meaningful as the distinction between sex tourism in countries where buying sex with enslaved children is legal and sex tourism in countries where it isn’t.
You are correct. The entire T rump family has poached the GOP elephant at RNC HQ.
This, this is madness.
The change marks a shift in efforts to stop the importation of elephant tusks and hides, overriding a 2014 ban imposed by the Obama administration. The new policy applies to the remains of African elephants killed between January 2016 and December 2018.
Just in time for tRump juniors 2018 Threatened Species Hunt Extravaganza where 'lil Donnie and friends will shoot scarce species from their air conditioned bus while downing sugary alcoholic drinks 
I hope they all get shot by poachers.
Except it’s not, and this is supposed to be journalism. Little, emotional errors like this turn reporting into white noise.
True. Technically.
However, this opens a huge door for illegal poached ivory (wink, wink, yeah its all legal, here is your bribe), which is still a huge problem. But you are correct. The headline is incorrect per se.