them in by hanging a rotting impala from a tree and then lie in wait to gun them down. It's sickening, and it needs to end.
Scientists fear leopard populations in Africa are plummeting. The animals are losing their habitat and prey, they die in conflicts with humans, their skins are coveted for illegal trade, and they're being gunned down by trophy hunters.
Americans bring home more than half of all leopard trophies worldwide — averaging almost 300 leopards each year shot in cold blood as decoration for living-room walls or social media feeds.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must stop permitting trophy hunters to bring leopard trophies into the country unless and until the Service knows how dire the leopard's decline is. Without more information on these animals' plight, the agency simply cannot permit leopards killed for fun by U.S. hunters to cross our borders.
That's why the Center for Biological Diversity is fighting in the courts and the halls of Congress to shut down the sick wildlife trade that's a major driver of the extinction crisis. We need you with us to win.