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To: The Beach Boys
Beach Boys: Don't support trophy hunting
Reject trophy hunting of endangered and threatened species by cancelling their appearance at the meeting of the Safari Club International .
Why is this important?
The Safari Club International will be meeting in Reno, Nevada this month for Safari Club International’s annual convention. This convention features trophy hunting opportunities and wildlife "trophies" or parts and products derived from wild animals.
The Safari Club International has historically promoted and supported the killing of species for no use other than as "trophies." It has recently worked to prevent the protection of gray wolves and giraffes under the Endangered Species Act; most alarmingly, the Safari Club International supported the Trump Administration's revisions to its responsibilities under the Endangered Species Act.
These revisions–that the Safari Club International loudly supported–will limit habitat protections, make protecting species from climate change more difficult, and allow economic cost of protection to be a guiding factor in future species protection decisions.
These changes are the gravest attack on the Endangered Species Act in decades and the Safari Club International supported them through advocacy and lobbying.
The Beach Boys should not endorse this culture of killing and extinction and should cancel their appearance at the Safari Club International convention.