US Fish and Wildlife Service

One ton of confiscated illegal elephant ivory was crushed last Friday in New York ’s Times Square by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. “Behind every piece of ivory is a dead elephant” explains Leigh Henry of the World Wildlife Fund. Ninety six elephants are killed for their tusks every day in Africa . #Ivory Crush won’t stop poaching or put a dent in the global ivory market but was designed rather

A federal court judge put an end to wolf hunting in Michigan last week by ordering the US Fish and Wildlife Service to immediately return wolves in the Great Lakes region to the endangered species list.