Tourism, published a plea to the American Fish and Wildlife Service in the New York Times in 2013 not to list the African lion as endangered. In practice, he argued, this would put lion conservation in Tanzania at risk: “We are alarmed that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service is considering listing the African lion as endangered,” he wrote. “Doing so would make it illegal for American hunters to bring their trophies home. Those hunters constitute 60 percent of our trophy-hunting market, and losing them would be disastrous to our conservation efforts” (Songorwa 2013). Songorwa’s plea
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