President Trump has just sentenced countless African elephants to death in a new policy announcement. He just reversed the 2014 ban on trophy hunting elephants in Zambia and Zimbabwe, further threatening these majestic animals.
But we can stop this -- after the death of Cecil the Lion, over 265,000 caring SumOfUs members like you called on major global airlines such as British Airways, United, KLM, Singapore Airways, Lufthansa, Air Emirates, American Airlines and countless others to ban trophy transport and we won.
We need to get the same airlines to commit to continuing to ban trophies. If we succeed, the trophy hunters will have no way to get the elephants home and thus, will be protected.
Elephant numbers are declining at alarming rates. The Great Elephant Census reported a 30% decline in population in only seven years, while The Elephant Project says that 100 elephants are killed a day. Allowing trophy hunting will only increase these deaths, especially poaching deaths. We cannot stand by and allow these majestic creatures to be slaughtered so that rich Americans can display their dead bodies as “trophies”.
42 different airlines committed to a full, or partial, ban on trophy transportation. Now is the time to pressure the airlines to continue its ban.
More information
BBC. 16 November 2017.
ABC News. 15 November 2017.