One way we can protect elephants at risk

We have the chance to act to ban imports of endangered animal "trophies" for good. Send a message to your legislators asking them to support the Prohibiting Threatened and Endangered Creature Trophies (ProTECT) Act today.

Subject: Keep elephants in the wild

Your Letter:

Dear Legislator,

African elephants are a vulnerable species listed under the Endangered Species Act -- there are only 415,000 of these creatures left on the planet. They are also hunted for sport. Allowing trophy hunters to import these imperiled animals is only incentivising taking them off the earth.

That's why I'm writing to ask you to support the Prohibiting Threatened and Endangered Creature Trophies (ProTECT) Act, which would prohibit "trophy hunting in the United States of any species listed under the Endangered Species Act," and "prohibit the import of any trophy of an ESA-listed species into the United States."

In March, the Trump administration reversed the ban on elephant hunt trophies -- threatening the future of at-risk African elephants. Secretary of the Interior Zinke has since put people in charge of conservation efforts who are known to be avid animal trophy hunters.

The reason this ban could be reversed? The law gives the President and Secretary Zinke the power to do so. The ProTECT act would change that, by ending the taking for trophy and the importation of any endangered or threatened species of fish or wildlife.

Please support this important legislation.

Sincerely,

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