On Friday, March 4, 2014 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service unilaterally announced a ban on all sport-hunted elephant imports from
Zimbabwe and Tanzania from 2014 and going forward. The U.S. FWS decision was
not made with consultation of the impacted countries, or with consideration of
how conservation funding in Zimbabwe and Tanzania would be gutted. Help reverse
this ill-advised ban that guts the funding for anti-poaching efforts in Africa.
1. Please go to this link Contact Your Congressional Representative and send a letter to your member of congress. It is important for hunters to get this issue highlighted with the folks that control the purse strings of federal agencies.
2. Come to Washington, D.C. on May 8th for a lobby day on Capitol Hill. Register at this link: Register for Lobby Day FWS's Deputy Director of Policy Steve Guertin will be at breakfast on May 8th where SCI will have a discussion on FWS's policies. If you are in Washington, you can help us in the fight.
If you follow the link you will see that there is a
letter/email set-up. You will have the opportunity to add your own comments should
you wish to do so. After you provide the required information it will forward the
email message directly to your Senators and Representative. It is very easy to
do and only takes a couple of minutes.
