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Ban giraffe "trophies" -- endangered status now!

To the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature:

Wealthy trophy hunters, overwhelmingly from the US, are helping to drive giraffes toward extinction. It's past time to protect this iconic animal by banning trophy imports into the US, and urgently listing it as an Endangered Species!

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Ban giraffe "trophies" -- endangered status now!
The smiling selfie with the rare giraffe she killed is going viral.

An American hunter's tasteless display is causing outrage across Africa -- and calling attention to the fact that gentle giraffes are silently racing toward extinction. There are fewer than 100,000 left in the wild!

These rich trophy hunters are a huge part of the problem, and the US is by far the biggest importer of grisly giraffe parts like hides, tails and even bones. Uggh!

But there's a simple move to give these iconic animals a fighting chance at survival: ban US hunters from importing their ghoulish trophies, and update the species' status to "Endangered" -- in the US and worldwide. If enough of us make a ruckus we can even make this a major election issue in the US! Sign now to defend these epic animals.
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