Environmental groups sue Trump over elephant trophies

Published November 20, 2017 5:47pm ET



The Center for Biological Diversity and Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Trump administration on Monday for allowing hunters to import elephant and lion trophies from Zimbabwe.

The suit comes several days after the Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reversed an Obama-era ban on elephant trophy imports. Fish and Wildlife also recently approved lion trophy imports from Zimbabwe.

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