NRA & SCI: Teaming Up for the Greater Good!!!
I see a lot more of this coming in the future. Working together on various issues definitely brings a bigger hammer to the fight and cost less in the end to defend!
Jul 13, 2018
Safari Club International and the National Rifle Association of America continue to defend the importation of elephants from Zimbabwe (and other species throughout Africa).
At stake is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service memorandum from March 1, 2018, that announced a new approach to the issuance of import permits. Instead of relying on countrywide findings made through rulemaking, the Service decided that the best approach would be to determine enhancement and/or non-detriment on a case-by-case basis.
While the March 1 memo withdrew several enhancement and non-detriment findings, the Service explained that it would continue relying on the information contained in those findings along with information provided by the permit applicant, the range countries and other sources, to make the findings.
Last year, two groups of anti-hunting organizations sued to challenge positive enhancement findings for Zimbabwe elephants and lions the Service had made. When the March 1 memo came out, the groups amended their lawsuits to challenge it also.
SCI and NRA, along with the federal government, recently asked the court to dismiss both cases. The groups, led by (1) the Center for Biological Diversity and the Humane Society of the United States, and (2) Friends of Animals, want to deprive the Service of its discretion to decide how best to issue import permits and make the required findings. What they really want to do is stop hunting in Africa altogether.
SCI and NRA will file a final brief later in the summer. Then we will wait for the court to either schedule a hearing or make a ruling without one.
Jul 13, 2018
Safari Club International and the National Rifle Association of America continue to defend the importation of elephants from Zimbabwe (and other species throughout Africa).
At stake is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service memorandum from March 1, 2018, that announced a new approach to the issuance of import permits. Instead of relying on countrywide findings made through rulemaking, the Service decided that the best approach would be to determine enhancement and/or non-detriment on a case-by-case basis.
While the March 1 memo withdrew several enhancement and non-detriment findings, the Service explained that it would continue relying on the information contained in those findings along with information provided by the permit applicant, the range countries and other sources, to make the findings.
Last year, two groups of anti-hunting organizations sued to challenge positive enhancement findings for Zimbabwe elephants and lions the Service had made. When the March 1 memo came out, the groups amended their lawsuits to challenge it also.
SCI and NRA, along with the federal government, recently asked the court to dismiss both cases. The groups, led by (1) the Center for Biological Diversity and the Humane Society of the United States, and (2) Friends of Animals, want to deprive the Service of its discretion to decide how best to issue import permits and make the required findings. What they really want to do is stop hunting in Africa altogether.
SCI and NRA will file a final brief later in the summer. Then we will wait for the court to either schedule a hearing or make a ruling without one.