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Hi John,
For 30 years Amboseli elephants — the longest-studied elephant population — were safe from trophy hunting.
But in the past nine months, five have been shot for their body parts. And more could still fall.
So the Center for Biological Diversity and allies just took action to permanently ban trophy hunt imports of these elephants into the United States.
Please help us save elephants and other imperiled species with a gift to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
Two of the five elephants killed in the past year were super-tuskers, male elephants with at least one tusk weighing more than 100 pounds.
Some of the elephant bodies were burned and buried to conceal the elephants' identities. But we do know it was a U.S. trophy hunter from Texas who shot and killed one of these males in March.
And the United States is the world's largest importer of elephant trophies from Tanzania. That means protecting this beloved cross-border elephant population from U.S. imports would go a long way toward helping them stay alive.
Banning U.S. imports from the Amboseli-West Kilimanjaro population would deter hunters and send a powerful message: Killing these extraordinary animals for sport is terribly wrong.
There are only 20-25 remaining mature males that have intact tusks from the population that spends time in Tanzania. The loss of even one puts this population at further risk.
It's past time to end the outdated, violent practice of killing majestic animals abroad and shipping their bodies home.
Elephants are irreplaceable icons of the natural world.
They deserve to live out their lives in the wild — not get shot by rich trophy hunters to be turned into room decorations.
Please help us fight for elephants and wildlife on the brink by giving today to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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