This reverses the ban set in place by the Obama administration in 2014 which prohibited importing elephant trophies into the United States.

Hunting has become a front and center topic in the US administration since President Donald Trump appointed an avid hunter Ryan Zinke as his Interior Secretary overseeing the Fish and Wildlife Service

Lifting the ban on importing heads and tusks  flies in the face of the US Endangered Species Act that lists elephants as endangered.

The US Interior Department cites the discredited argument that hunting financially benefits conservation.

Hunting and poaching has reduced the world’s  elephant population from 10 million to just 400,000 today.

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