Colorado man pleads guilty to poaching elephant in Zimbabwe
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is charged with protecting species listed under the ESA, is too often a willing partner of trophy hunters seeking to import sport-hunted trophies. Photo by Waldo Swiegers/AP Images for HSI
Three years after Americans were outraged by the killing of Cecil the lion by Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer, yet another wealthy American trophy hunter is in the news for an act just as shameful: the poaching of an elephant in Zimbabwe with a plan to sell the animal’s tusks. And here’s the clincher to this sickening story: the hunter, Ross Jackson, was serving as a director of the Dallas Safari Club until last week.
On April 24, Jackson, a Colorado resident, pleaded guilty in a federal court proceeding to violating the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by exporting ivory from an elephant he illegally…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Despicable immoral and tragic behavior
Really dudes you need those trophies for your man caves ?
Let’s expose these humans for the serial killers they are !
Absolutely. It’s as bad as we think, and probably worse than we know. I hope people are not going to continue to tell us how trophy hunting helps conservation!
I’m convinced that Walter Palmer wanted to poach an elephant also, and I think the Zimbabwe gov’t was corrupt. I hope things are going to improve.
I doubt if a $25,000 fine is a big deal for a lot of trophy hunters. He should get jail time in Zimbabwe.
From your lips….
I really do hope a customs official or somebody is watching this man like a hawk:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/08/05/walter_palmer_wanted_to_hunt_elephant_but_guide_theo_bronkhorst_says_sufficiently.html