By Kitty Block

July 19, 2023 0 Comments

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A proposed ban to end trophy imports of imperiled animal species including the African savannah elephant is headed to Belgium’s Council of State for legal review, and after that it will be voted on by the Parliament, the very body that unanimously supported the identical resolution in 2022. 1001slide/ iStock.com

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Whenever I see social media posts by trophy hunters gleefully posing with the animals they’ve killed, I have a feeling of deep loss, for the individual animals slain, for those animals’ families and social networks, and for our planet. And I also feel a deep outrage, because to me those images stand out starkly and bizarrely against a reality in which most people worldwide feel trophy hunting is a vestige of a shameful past happening right here and now. 

For these and other reasons, I was heartened to learn last…