IN THE NEWS: African elephant trophies Now Allowed: Trump Administration

    In a formal memo quietly issued during the week of February 26, 2018, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced the agency
will once again allow Americans to import the body parts of African elephants killed for trophy, despite presidential tweets decrying the practice as a “horror show.”
  Endangered species are a matter of concern for all U.S. citizens - not just the minority who seek to kill, stuff and mount them.

  
SOURCE: NBC News 
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it will now consider all permits for importing trophies of animals from African nations on a “case-by-case" basis, months after the president called elephant hunting "a horror show" and suggested he would keep the ban in place.

In a formal memo, quietly issued late last week and later disclosed in a court filing Friday, the agency said it will withdraw earlier agency rulings related to importing trophies of dead elephants from South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia, as well as those related to importing trophies of dead lions and bonteboks from South Africa.

  Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

Big-game trophy decision will be announced next week but will be very hard pressed to change my mind that this horror show in any way helps conservation of Elephants or any other animal.

6:57 PM - Nov 19, 2017 

Video: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/reversal-trump-administration-won-t-ban-import-african-elephant-trophies-n854121
The agency said in the memo it was revoking numerous nationwide "enhancement findings," which placed certain restrictions on the practice, because those findings were "no longer effective" for making individual permit decisions for trophy imports of dead animals on the endangered species list. However, it also noted that it could still consider the information cited in those findings when reviewing applications in the future.

The Fish and Wildlife Service initially announced in November it had lifted the ban implemented under the Obama administration on importing trophies of dead elephants from Zimbabwe and Zambia into the U.S. But Trump quickly stepped in and suspended the decision after it was assailed by conservation and animal rights groups. The president, whose two older sons hunt, later called the practice “terrible” and a "horror show."