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-- 2015 -- July 29:
Donald Trump’s Sons Killed Exotic
Animals
Cecil the lion certainly wasn't the first beautiful African creature slain by an
American. Back in 2012, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump went big-game hunting.
Back in 2012, photos surfaced of the elder Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and
Eric Trump, proudly posing with the carcasses of dead animals they hunted while
on a big-game hunting expedition in Africa. The photos showed Donald and Eric
posing with a lifeless cheetah, Donald clenching a knife along with the bloody,
sawed-off tail of an elephant, and the pair posing next to a crocodile hanging
from a noose off of a tree.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-sons-killed-exotic-animals -- 2016 --
Back to top May 14: Trophy-Hunting Trump Jr. Sets Sights
on ‘Re-Shaping’ Wildlife Policies
Trump Jr. has been quoted many times attempting to defend trophy hunting with
the usual rhetoric about how the trophy hunting fees are plowed right back into
wildlife conservation or how the fees are helping local communities. “Looking
globally, the economic help to the people in Africa for food, water wells,
schools, and hospitals is tremendous through hunters’ dollars,” he said in a
January 2016 interview with Petersen’s Hunting.
April 13:
Study Confirms Gun Owners Have Smaller Penises
It should be noted that the study only shows a correlation and does not prove a
causative effect. That is, while the data clearly show that small penis size is
related to gun ownership (4), one cannot say for certain that compensating for
small penis size is the motivation for owning a gun. Further research might be
helpful in supporting such a causative relationship.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/04/daniel-zimmerman/study-confirms-gun-owners-smaller-penises-content-contest/
May 22: Wounded Elephant Crushes, Kills Trophy Hunter
The deadly incident highlights how dangerous elephants can be when
threatened and casts further scrutiny on the practice of trophy hunting.
Proponents argue that some of the money trophy hunting groups make from wealthy
foreigners goes toward local communities and elephant conservation.
But the
benefits that trickle down to communities are often small: The industry
doesn’t employ many people, government corruption affects available trophy
hunting land, and the practice of trophy hunting isn’t stopping poachers.
Poaching for ivory is the biggest threat to elephants in southern Africa.
April 13:
Study Confirms Gun Owners Have Smaller Penises
It should be noted that the study only shows a correlation and does not prove a
causative effect. That is, while the data clearly show that small penis size is
related to gun ownership (4), one cannot say for certain that compensating for
small penis size is the motivation for owning a gun. Further research might be
helpful in supporting such a causative relationship.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/04/daniel-zimmerman/study-confirms-gun-owners-smaller-penises-content-contest/
February 14:
Eric and Donald Trump, Jr. own a massive private hunting preserve in upstate
New York — and neighbors say it sounds like a 'war zone'
Incorporation records filed with the state show that the LLC's articles of
organization were filed by a Trump Organization executive based out of Trump
Tower and that Trump Jr. designated himself in July 2013 as the company's
authorized person. In disclosure reports filed with New York City and obtained
by the AP under a public records request, Trump Jr. lists himself as the owner
of "DT Leather Hill Road LLC" and Eric Trump lists himself as the owner of "194
Leather Hill Road LLC."
https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-sons-own-a-huge-hunting-preserve-that-sounds-like-a-war-zone-2018-2
March 29:
Eric and Donald Trump Jr.’s Big-Game Hunting Hobby Inspires Jim Carrey’s Art
Hobby
Jim Carrey, actor and self-described
“unified field of nothing dancing for no particular reason”, is also an
artiste, and he made a few enemies this week through his artwork. He
depicted presidential sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric
Trump impaled on an elephant’s tusks, then he tweeted it. Gun and Trump
enthusiasts did not take kindly to the characterization, and at least one
alerted the F.B.I.
The piece is less a literal threat than obvious commentary based on Eric and
Donald, Jr.’s long-standing pastime of hunting big game. There are numerous
photos of the boys and their fresh kills. In one image, which made the rounds as
his father’s campaign gained traction, Don Jr. holds a severed elephant tail up
for the camera. A Zimbabwean animal conservation group deemed the hunt legal,
and Don
tweeted later that he “had no shame in [the photos].” Between the two of
them, they’ve also killed Cape buffalo, alligators, cheetahs, lions, and more.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/03/jim-carrey-eric-and-donald-trump-jr-art-elephant
May 22:
Trump administration moves to end a ban on Alaska hunting practices that many
say are cruel
May 25: Wyoming
approves first Yellowstone-area grizzly bear hunt in 44 years, backlash erupts
Hunting is set to begin Sept. 1
in mountains and basins with a relatively sparse grizzly population, before
the hunting zone is moved closer to the park by Sept. 15 and end by Nov. 15,
if legal challenges don't interpose.
"Killing grizzlies
for fun, when there is ample scientific evidence that the population is not
growing, food sources have already been diminished, and the further effects of
climate change is unknown, is preposterous," added nature photographer Tom
Mangelsen
May 27:Authorities in Oregon this week
announced charges against 11 people accused of participating in a 'kind of
demented social club' that would kill animals "for the thrill."
“For some of these people, it was kind of a demented social club. For some, it
was about ego and bravado — who could kill the biggest? The most?” said
Gunderson. “For some people, it’s what their family did.”
“The scope of what we can prove
and what actually happened, there’s a real gap there,”
Gunderson said. “We’ll never have the whole story, but the stuff we can prove
is pretty gross.”
May 29:Hunters in Alaska could be
allowed to kill black bear cubs and wolf or coyote pups in their dens, set
bait for brown bears, and kill caribou while they are swimming on national
wildlife preserves in the state.
The proposal represents a
National Park Service push to defer to states in situations where there is
conflict between state and federal regulations.
The issue ultimately comes down to a difference between state and federal
policies. The National Park Service
proposed a rule last week that would reverse a ban on the hunting
practices that Alaska wanted to allow on the state level, even though national
wildlife groups have called the effort "inhumane."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-push-expand-access-public-lands-leads/story?id=55392471
June 30:
Trump Wildlife Protection Board Defends Trophy Hunting
July 17: How Trump’s wildlife board is
rebranding trophy hunting as good for animals
As hunters hold immense clout in the Trump administration and most of the
council’s members are advocates of the sport, critics worry the board will
protect their hobby, not the animals
Donald Trump has called big-game trophy hunting a “horror show”, despite his
own sons’ participation in elephant and leopard hunts, and in 2017 he formed an
advisory board to steer US policy on the issue.
But rather than conservation scientists and wildlife advocates, it is composed
of advocates for the hunting of elephants, giraffes and other threatened,
charismatic species. And observers say that since Trump took office, court
rulings and administrative decisions have in fact made it easier for hunters to
import the body parts of lions, elephants and other animals killed in Africa.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/17/trumps-wildlife-board-claims-trophy-hunting-saves-endangered-animals
July 26:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued more than three dozen permits for
hunters to bring back lion
trophy parts from Zimbabwe and Zambia between 2016-2018, according to copies of
the permits obtained by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
The documents were obtained by
Friends of Animals
and reported by
Huffington Post on Thursday. Thirty-three hunters received a total of 38
lion trophy permits, according to the animal advocacy nonprofit.
More than half of those hunters donated to Republican lawmakers or have ties to
hunting advocacy group
Safari Club International, Friends of Animals said.
August 1:
Trophy-hunting foes sue to shut down Trump wildlife board
The lawsuit said the "deceptively named" International Wildlife Conservation
Council actually promotes the hunting of and importing of body parts from
"imperiled species" such as African elephants, lions and rhinos.
It said the 17-member council, created last November by Interior Secretary Ryan
Zinke, violates a 1972 federal law designed to curb White House use of
"secretive" advisory panels to set national policy, and should lose its powers
and charter.
September 16: Big-game hunters infuriated by
Trump elephant trophy debacle
Of the 21 individual permits submitted to FWS between January 2017 and March
2018 for imports of elephant trophies from the two countries initially banned by
the Obama administration — Zimbabwe and Zambia — not one has received a
response, according to data released under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request.
Applicants for elephant
trophy permits in countries like Tanzania and South Africa that weren’t banned
by the Obama administration received prompt responses from FWS, with most being
accepted, The Hill’s review of the data showed. But the majority of elephants
available to hunt are found in the formally banned countries: Zimbabwe and
Zambia.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/406794-big-game-hunters-infuriated-by-trump-elephant-trophy-debacle
September 25:Court Blocks Grizzly Bear Hunt—Why It's
So Controversial
October 18: Audubon Vows to Fight Trump Administration’s Rollback of
Bird Protections
Calls Plan to Rewrite Rules Bad for Birds and Business
“There is zero demand or desire from the American people for gutting bird
protections and putting nearly every bird in this country at greater risk,” said
David O’Neill, National Audubon Society’s Chief Conservation Officer. “But the
Administration is doubling down on its efforts to weaken a law that has
motivated businesses to adopt simple practices that have saved billions of
birds. The hundred year old law is part of Audubon’s legacy and it is our
responsibility to mobilize our more than one million members to protect it.”
https://www.audubon.org/news/audubon-vows-fight-trump-administrations-rollback-bird-protections -- 2019 --
Back to top April 9:
Big game hunter who has killed more
than 5,000 elephants says he is 'totally unrepentant' after being named in
investigation into plummeting numbers – and admits killing 60 lions, 50 hippos,
and 40 leopards
An African hunter who claims to have killed more than 5,000 elephants says he is
'totally unrepentant' about the deaths he has caused.
Ron Thomson, 77, who worked in Africa's national parks for almost six decades,
claims he was not hunting the animals for pure sport but was managing population
that would otherwise have got out of control.
At the time, the hunters reportedly
claimed the hunt was ethical as the elephant was past his breeding years.
However, elephant experts later said the bull was 35-40 years old and was of
prime breeding age.
There is concern regarding the loss of the genes that such a large tusker
carries.
