Trump’s appointments in this area are naturally making matters worse, although they have been pretty bad for a very long time. We need better and broader public education and mobilisation campaigns to shift the value system against the real frivolous predators, amongst us, “sports hunters”, and greedy ranchers. All of these types know only one thing: looking at nature and its animals as a source of exploitation. This is the mentality that devastated the West, is devastating what remains of the habitats around the globe, and has brought us climate change and ecological death. It is an ideological continuum. Deal with it.