Hillary Clinton has been in awe of elephants since a trip to Africa nearly 20 years ago. As Secretary of State she pushed an
aggressive conservation agenda for the Obama Administration and implemented an
$80 million anti-poaching program through the Clinton Global Initiative. She is committed to wildlife conservation.
“I love the way…the matriarch of the family
looks for everybody, I just have such a sense of connection to elephants and it
just breaks my heart that they are being poached and murdered and babies being
left to fend for themselves,” Clinton said on a portion of the show that only
aired on Facebook.
Clinton’s affinity for elephants is not
widely known or reported. But during her tenure as Secretary of State in the
Obama Administration, she helped bring the issue of global wildlife trafficking
out of obscurity.
“International criminal syndicates are
orchestrating the slaughter of many of the world’s iconic wildlife species and
profiteering by marketing ivory, rhinoceros horn, and other wildlife parts in
the U.S., Asia, and Europe,” said Jorge Silva, a spokesperson for the Clinton
Campaign. “Many of the criminal syndicates have ties with, and are helping to
fund, terrorist groups around the world, and also are engaged in human, drug,
and arms trafficking.”
When asked
for input regarding Donald Trump position on elephant conservation The Guardian
got no response. Of course, you could
infer the Trump position on conservation from this photo of his namesake son,
taken just after Trump Junior had shot and killed an elephant.
In 2012, media leaked photos of Donald
Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, taken during a big game hunt
safari in Zimbabwe. In one image, Donald Trump Jr. stands next to an elephant
he shot to death and holds up its severed tail. Cutting off an elephant’s tail
is traditional in some African cultures where the hair is made into a bracelet.
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