First my usual disclaimer: I am no fan of such trophy hunts. I often hike in remote spots to see bears and other animals in their natural habitat. We have previously followed the controversy over the shooting of “Cecil the Lion” by an American dentist Walter Palmer from Minnesota as well as subsequent controversies of an Idaho hunter taunting animal advocates and killing giant elephants or giraffes or rare goats or famed wolves for trophies. The most recent example is the decision of the highly corrupt Zambian government to allow trophy hunters to kill thousands of hippos, including rare and threatens species for windfall payments. Some 1,250 hippos have reportedly been slaughtered under the program. Hunters are allowed to shoot two hippos at a time for a few thousand dollars.
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In Thailand, police are dealing with a rather novel case of road rage after a man was driving at an excessive speed through the Khao Yai National Park after being warned about animals on the road and hit an elephant in its back legs. 
There was a time when the United States led the world in environmental protection. That position has now been taken over by Europe on areas ranging from eliminating fossil fuels to recycling. Now the European Parliament is about to take a bold stand against plastic pollution ruining our oceans with a ban on single use plastics. This comes at a time when plastics not only are close to outnumbering fish in the ocean but 
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