Written by Associated Press
In this Nov. 26, 2013 photo Jericho the lion is seen relaxing by an ant hill in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Conservationists in Zimbabwe are reporting the death of Jericho,an old lion that was a companion of Cecil, the lion whose illegal killing by an American hunter last year prompted an international outcry. (AP Photo/ Sean Herbert)MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A wildlife advocacy group says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued permits to hunters in South Dakota and Wisconsin to bring back lion trophies from Africa.
Nonprofit Friends of Animals disclosed last week that the list of 33 permit applicants have been granted such permission since Donald Trump was elected president, the Star Tribune reported. One hunter from the Upper Midwest, Dan Ongna, of Stevens Point, Wis., was among those issued permits, according to Friends of Animals.
Jon F. Dagel is another. He had…
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Exposing the Big Game 
What’s even more appalling about trophy hunting is that these people are not content with just one lion or elephant, but they have roomsful of them! One guy had about four or five lions in his ‘trophy room’, and read about Walter Palmer’s trophy room. In times of threatened and diminishing wildlife populations, poaching of ivory for absolutely worthless folk medicine, and 8 billion and counting of us, it is totally unacceptable.
They also IMO just toe the line between legality and poaching by baiting these animals out of the protected national parks, the same as they do in our American national parks. It is not fair chase. Ugly greed and dishonesty on display. And it saddens me that this questionable mantle has been take up now by Americans.
I know this was posted here before, but it needs repeating, I think:
“The number of stuffed lions are enough to form a small pride, and there is practically a herd of gazelles hanging on the wall, but what some find upsetting is the elephant tusks prominently featured near the top of the photo . . .”:
https://www.inquisitr.com/2295647/kerry-krottinger-lion-hunter-walter-palmer-conservationists-photo/
He and his wife really do need to go before an Inquisitor. 😉