“The Trump administration has lifted a ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from certain African countries, just over three months after President Trump appeared to pause a first attempt to do so amid public uproar. . . .
“In November 2017, just one day after the Fish and Wildlife Service announced it had lifted the ban, Trump said he had put that move “on hold until such time as I review all conservation facts.” Two days later, he tweeted that he “will be very hard pressed to change my mind that this horror show in any way helps conservation of Elephants or any other animal.”
“As recent as late January, Trump rejected the possibility he would lift the ban. “I didn’t want elephants killed and stuffed and have the tusks brought back into this [country]. And people can talk all they want about preservation and all other things that they’re saying,” he told British broadcaster Piers Morgan, referring to the argument proffered by his own interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, and others that fees paid by big-game hunters could help fund conservation programs. “In that case, the money was going to a government that was probably taking the money, OK?”
""That was done by a very high-level government person," he added in reference to the agency’s decision. “As soon as I heard about it, I turned it around.”
“Since that decision in November, however, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Obama administration had acted improperly in implementing its ban. That late December ruling . . . found that the administration did not sufficiently observe the rules around creating a new regulation, such as inviting public comment.”
Let’s do detail:
“The Trump administration has lifted a ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from certain African countries, just over three months after President Trump appeared to pause a first attempt to do so amid public uproar. . . .
“In November 2017, just one day after the Fish and Wildlife Service announced it had lifted the ban, Trump said he had put that move “on hold until such time as I review all conservation facts.” Two days later, he tweeted that he “will be very hard pressed to change my mind that this horror show in any way helps conservation of Elephants or any other animal.”
“As recent as late January, Trump rejected the possibility he would lift the ban. “I didn’t want elephants killed and stuffed and have the tusks brought back into this [country]. And people can talk all they want about preservation and all other things that they’re saying,” he told British broadcaster Piers Morgan, referring to the argument proffered by his own interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, and others that fees paid by big-game hunters could help fund conservation programs. “In that case, the money was going to a government that was probably taking the money, OK?”
""That was done by a very high-level government person," he added in reference to the agency’s decision. “As soon as I heard about it, I turned it around.”
“Since that decision in November, however, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Obama administration had acted improperly in implementing its ban. That late December ruling . . . found that the administration did not sufficiently observe the rules around creating a new regulation, such as inviting public comment.”
(cont.)