John,

Rare elephants known as “super-tuskers” — the beloved elders of their communities — are being murdered for sport as rich hunters pay thousands to shoot them in cold blood. And it’s incredibly urgent because under Trump, elephant trophy imports to the U.S. skyrocketed last year, putting even more of these precious animals at risk.

To stop the slaughter, we need to urgently expose the politicians and trophy hunting industry helping drive these magnificent animals toward extinction. And we need you with us.

If we raise enough in the coming days, we can launch a massive public pressure campaign targeting the governments of Botswana and Tanzania to pass an emergency ban, target decision-makers in the U.S. with hard-hitting media work, and put this cruelty in front of travelers and tourists through online and airport ads.

Can you chip in now to help protect the world’s last remaining super-tuskers, and all of our natural world?

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Only a few dozen super-tusker elephants remain. They are older males who survived decades of poaching, drought, and habitat loss long enough to grow massive tusks that scrape the ground. And they play a hugely important role in their communities. After one super-tusker was killed, other elephants visited to pay their respects, mourning and gently touching his body with their trunks.

Now, some of the world’s last super-tuskers are directly in the crosshairs thanks to the tripling of elephant trophy imports into the U.S. since Trump’s first term. In 2018, the U.S. approved 117 elephant trophy imports. In 2025, that number surged to more than 300. More than two-thirds came from Botswana, where trophy hunting was reopened despite warnings from scientists that the country’s elephant hunting quotas are unsustainable.

In 2017, Trump called the slaughter of these precious creatures a “horror show.” Now he’s turning the other way, but public outrage has stopped trophy hunting before — and it’s up to all of us to create that kind of pressure again.

If enough of us step up now, we can make it impossible for politicians and tourism companies to get away with this any longer. We’ll demand an emergency ban, then make a huge splash online and in the media with ads on travel websites and airports and by activating key influencers to speak out.

Will you chip in today to help stop the elephant trophy hunt, protect the world’s last super-tuskers, and save endangered species across the planet?

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Your donation will help power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting for people and the planet.

The hunting industry keeps selling the same story: that killing elephants somehow helps conservation. But conservationists and local scientists have repeatedly raised alarms about the growing number of elephants being killed for trophies — especially older males critical to elephant populations. Now together let’s make sure the rest of the world hears their warnings loud and clear — before it’s too late.