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Lap Chi Chu (Mlima’s Tale) wins Outstanding Lighting Design. Award was presented by Be More Chill’s Will Roland and The Prom’s Caitlin Kinnunen.

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Trump Halted These Hunt Trophies. Elephant Lovers Will Never Forget It.

Just why the president shelved his own administration’s rule on bringing hunt trophies into the country — a weighty query — is the elephant in the room.

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After President Trump - or at least the Trump administration - announced that they were lifting the ban on importing hunting trophies, the President himself weighed in on Twitter and ended up reversing his administration’s course. Putting aside the staggering levels of incompetence on display, the result is an obvious positive. 

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Tracking the Illegal Tusk Trade

Elephant ivory is a key source of funding for armed groups in central Africa like the Lord’s Resistance Army. National Geographic commissioned the creation of artificial tusks with hidden GPS trackers that were planted in the smuggling supply chain.

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Looking at the path and movement of illegal ivory sales we can see where it all ends up as well as who is profiting from the sale. This interactive visual tracks the illegal ivory trading in Central Africa.

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Yashar Ali on Twitter

“WATCH: When Sokotei's mom died, he refused to leave her body for hours. At @DSWT the other orphans welcomed him and helped him to recover. https://t.co/oAFdvLTlwA”

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One of the biggest tasks facing Wildlife Trusts around the world is not only protecting wild animals from poachers, but what happens to the children of those animals who were killed. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is one organization doing amazing work with orphaned wild animals and they frequently document their stories, like this one here about Sokotei.