By Kitty Block and Sara Amundson

October 28, 2020 0 Comments

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Our lawsuit focuses on leopards imported from Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique—the United States has imported more than 1,000 leopard trophies from these countries alone within a recent five-year period.Photo by Chip Litherland/AP Images for the HSUS738SHARES

The number of leopards in sub-Saharan Africa has plummeted by 30% in just the last 20 years, putting the future of these unique animals in jeopardy. Yet the U.S. government continues to allow Americans to import nearly 300 leopard trophies a year.

Today, the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International, along with our coalition partner Center for Biological Diversity and a South Africa-based ecotourism safari operator involved in the conservation of big cats,filed a lawsuitagainst the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for allowing these imports. Our lawyers also sent the agency aletter