method of limiting overhunting internationally is to limit or ban imports of the carcass or other animal parts from being shipped back to the country to be used in trophies.ДЇew hunters are interested in spending thousands of dollars to hunt an animal and not be able to bring the trophy home. The spokesperson added thatВ by law the agency does not allow trophy imports of certain protected species that were hunted in nations whose conservation programs failВ 'to meet high standards for transparency, scientific management and effectiveness.'ДЄ frequent U.S. вЂњLegal, well-regulated hunting as part of a sound management program can benefit the conservation of certain species by providing incentives to local communities to conserve the species and by putting much-needed revenue back into conservation,' a FWS spokesperson said. FWS has never denied a permit application for the rhino.ДЇWS officials defended the practice of granting hunters the ability to import their trophies in the name of species conservation. Two were granted in 2015 and one in 2013, FWS told the Hill. Harber's permitВ request forВ the black rhino trophy willВ only be the forth FWS has granted from Namibia. Section 10 of the ESA authorizes the permitting of actions that enhance the survival of a species,2 and killing a critically endangered rhinoceros and importing the trophy clearly does not benefit the species,вЂќ they wrote in their letter. вЂњWe dispute that permits can be issued under the Endangered Species Act (вЂњESAвЂќ) for sport-hunted trophies of endangered or threatened species. The cruelty of trophy hunting simply doesnвЂ™t comport with efforts to save AfricaвЂ™s imperiled wildlife.вЂќД«oth groups wrote a letter Monday to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Ryan Keith Zinke Trump's relocation of the Bureau of Land Management was part of a familiar Republican playbook Watchdog: Trump official boosted former employer in Interior committeeВ membership Overnight Energy & Environment - Biden makes return to pre-Trump national monument boundaries official MORE and Acting FWS Director Jim Kurth, arguing that the permit should not be granted. вЂњWe shouldnвЂ™t be sanctioning the death of this majestic animal by allowing this trophy into the United States. вЂњItвЂ™s disgusting to see federal wildlife officials giving a Texas billionaire a pat on the back for blowing away this incredibly rare rhino,вЂќ said Tanya Sanerib, CBDвЂ™s international legal director, in a statement. The Humane Society of the United States and the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) fought to restrict the import of the rhino Harber killed since he first submitted a request for a permitВ this past January.ДЇWS alerted CBD last Thursday of its plans to approve HarberвЂ™s permit request within ten days. law, both were challenged by wildlife groups opposed to the idea of hunting for conservation. While HarberвЂ™s hunt was legal and his subsequent import request is authorized under U.S. I knew there was going to be a lot of controversy about it, but I did that to save the black rhino,вЂќ Harber told the Herald DiplomatВ in January. The World Wildlife Foundation estimates there are currentlyВ fewer than 5,500 wild black rhinos left. He said he viewed the hunt as a way to raise money to protect the black rhino. Harber, who news reports say is 80 or 81 years old, won the chance to hunt the rhino after bidding $275,000 at a Dallas Safari Club event in 2016.

The black rhinoceros is considered a critically endangered species, but Namibia allows up to five of the animals to be killed in hunts each year, according to FWS. Lacy Harber, the owner of a taxidermy museum in Texas, shot and killed the black rhino during a February 2017 hunt in Namibia. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) plans to approve within ten days a request by a hunter to import the trophy of a black rhino killed in a controversial hunt last year, according to an official email reviewed by The Hill.

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