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  • 2017-11-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Is This Ryan Zinke Posing with a Dead Elephant? (en)
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  • Photographs depicting big game hunters and the animals they kill tend to stir up controversy, so when President Trump's administration announced that they were lifting a ban on importing elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia (a decision that was later put on hold), it wasn't surprising to see some of these images circulating online. On 19 November 2017, the Facebook page Cecil the Lion (presumably named after a lion that an American dentist killed in 2015) posted an image purportedly showing Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke posing with a bleeding, apparently dead elephant: This image is genuine, but it does not show Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke. This image first garnered widespread attention in August 2016 when Facebook user Helen Louise Winters posted it, along with several other images showing this hunter, identified as Ian Evans, posing with various dead animals. The Daily Record reported at the time that the photographs had been made public amidst a family dispute in which Winters accused Evans of killing the family's pet geese: Although Zinke has been described as a lifelong hunter, he's not the man in the photograph. (en)
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