Americans who hunted and killed endangered African elephants in Zambia cannot bring trophies of their prey back home, a federal judge ruled this week. “Plaintiffs paid a princely sum for the opportunity to shoot African elephants in Zambia and then they wanted to import the animals’ corpses back to the United States,” Chief U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth. “The trouble is that plaintiffs’ attempts at post-mortem importation run up against some complex law.”
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