From trophy hunting to trapping and wolf hunts, wildlife is under siege.ByCyril Christo and Steve Capra | March 8, 2021, Opinion Contributorhttps://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.445.1_en.html#goog_243303267Volume 20% 

https://thehill.com/changing-america/opinion/541840-lets-stop-slaughtering-innocent-wildlife-in-montana-and-beyond

“Trophy hunting is often seen as an aberration by a handful of individuals. However this investigation shows it is a large, powerful industry with a well-oiled and generously-funded lobbying machine.”

—Eduardo Goncalves

I had the good fortune to ask Patrick Hemingway about elephants just at the beginning of the worst conservation tragedy of the last decade — the slaughter of 130,000 elephants. “Enormous silly beasts,” as his father Ernest described them in “True at First Light.”He told me from his home in Montana, “For my money the elephant will soon be gone.” He of course recognized the royal “sport” for what it was, a colonial fabrication that belongs to the old days.Humanity lost a third of the world’s elephants due to poaching, often in…