US Fish and Wildlife Service says importing carcass will benefit conservation
Corey Knowlton bid $350,000 to shoot endangered species in Namibia
Associated Press
Friday 27 March 2015 17.08 GMTLast modified on Friday 27 March 201517.23 GMT
The US government will allow a Texas man to import the trophy of an endangered black rhinoceros if he kills one in Africa as part of a conservation fundraiser.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service said on Thursday that importing a carcass from Namibia meets criteria under the Endangered Species Act of benefiting conservation.
Corey Knowlton bid $350,000 last year in a Dallas Safari Club auction billed as a fundraising effort to save the black rhino.
In a letter to the agency in December, the club’s executive director, Ben Carter, said the money raised from such auctions is “critical to supporting the Namibian government in their efforts to stem the tide of commercial killing of these animals”.
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