First and foremost, I hope you and your loved ones are safe and healthy during this global crisis.
 
With this worldwide pause, a travel ban has been implemented which will restrict hunters from North America to fly to Botswana.  Thus, it is possible that the majority of the hunting permits will go unused.
 
Siobhan Mitchell, UK Director of Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, reported; "We welcome the fact that foreign trophy hunters cannot kill elephants in Botswana, and hope that the government takes the time to reflect on and rethink its deadly strategy towards elephants and shake off this colonial pastime altogether.”
 
Leading wildlife charity, Born Free Foundation’s head policy maker Mark Jones, urged Botswana to abandon any return to trophy hunting. “Born Free has always maintained that commercial hunting does not offer an ethical or sustainable wildlife management tool, nor is it an effective or sustainable way of funding conservation activities or local communities.”
 
Both the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting and Born Free Foundation are prime examples that most people do not want to see the elephants get hunted and killed, so let’s stand in solidarity and make our voices HERD because now more than ever the elephants need our support!

Will you please continue to share the petition on your social media outlets? 
 
Here is a suggestion of what you could post:

Elephants need our support! We need Congress to take action to Ban the Import of Hunting Trophies: www.change.org/bantrophyhuntingimports
 
Thank you for your continued support!
 
With gratitude,
Nicole @WildForChange
 
Photo courtesy of Harshil Gudka on Unsplash