TRUMP TO WEIGH IN ON BIG- GAME HUNTING, TROPHIES

One month before the Trump administration sparked outrage by reversing a ban on trophies from threatened African elephants, federal officials loosened restrictions on the importation of heads and hides of lions shot for sport. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began issuing permits Oct. 20 for lions killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia between 2016 and 2018. The agency is also studying whether to add three additional countries to the list — Mozambique, Namibia and Tanzania. Previously, only wild lions killed in South Africa were eligible to be imported. “Big- game trophy decision will be announced next week but will be very hard pressed to change my mind that this horror show in any way helps conservation of Elephants or any other animal,” the president tweeted on Sunday.