President Donald Trump said Friday he's delaying a new policy allowing the body parts of African elephants shot for sport to be imported until he can review "all conservation facts." The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday it would allow such importation, arguing that encouraging wealthy big-game hunters to kill the threatened species would help raise money for conservation programs.

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Friday he is putting a decision to allow imports of elephant trophies on hold after a torrent of criticism from conservation advocates and across social media. Trump's reversal came hours after his administration released a rule on Friday to allow hunters who kill elephants in Zimbabwe to bring their trophies back to the United States, which had been banned by the Obama administration.

Partially reversing an Obama-era ban, the Trump administration will now allow U.S. hunters to bring home the remains of elephants they've killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia in southern Africa. The move, announced this week, was greeted with cheers by hunters and firearms groups but was derided by animal rights advocates as the government argued that conditions for elephants in parts of Africa had "changed and improved" in recent years.

Piping plovers are among the shorebirds that rely on the Georgia coast. Red knots like this one fatten up on horseshoe crab eggs in the spring along the Georgia coast before continuing their long-distance migration from South America to the Arctic.

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Manni the green sea turtle at her intake to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center after being injured in a hopper dredge. Photo courtesy of the Georgia Sea Turtle Center.

It's just after 10 p.m. on a misty Monday night. I'm riding in the back of a pickup truck sitting on a stack of 50-pound bags of corn scanning a picked cornfield with a thermal imaging scope.

MISSOULA, Mont. - - The group behind the creation of our national forest system - the Boone and Crockett Club - applauds Congressman Bruce Westerman , Chairman Rob Bishop and the House of Representatives for passing H.R. 2936, the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017.

This undated aerial photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a herd of caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. Congress is a step closer to opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling.

Seven U.S. Senate Democrats, including Sen. Edward Markey, plan to call Tuesday for Republicans to remove language from a budget resolution allowing for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. League of Conservation Voters Senior Vice President Tiernan Sittenfeld earlier this month said GOP budget proposals "include a huge giveaway to oil and gas companies by paving the way for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to the Gwich'in people and iconic wildlife."

NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE , Huron, S.D. October 5, 2017 - U.S. Department of Agriculture officials announce October 20, 2017 as the batching date for applications for the popular Environmental Quality Incentives Program administered by the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service . Landowners seeking to address natural resource concerns on their property are encouraged to apply for participation in the USDA's EQIP.

This year, USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service plans to invest $250 million in technical and financial assistance to help private landowners, tribes, land trusts and other groups protect critical wetlands, agricultural lands and grasslands. The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program focuses on restoring and protecting wetlands as well as conserving productive agricultural lands and grasslands.

The Trump administration has quietly withdrawn dozens of pending actions to protect endangered species ranging from the green sea turtle to plants in the Florida Everglades, something conservationists say may violate federal law requiring the government to act. The pending rules were mostly withdrawn in March and April.

The decision not to list the Pacific walrus as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act reverses an Obama administration finding that the walrus deserved protection. The Pacific walrus will not be designated as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday, reversing an Obama administration finding that the walrus deserved protections because of the effects of global warming and receding Arctic sea ice.

US authorities said they cannot say with certainty that the Pacific walrus is likely to become endangered despite an extensive loss of Arctic sea ice due to global warming The US government has announced it will not list the Pacific walrus as a threatened species based on diminished Arctic Ocean sea ice, concluding that the marine mammals have adapted to the loss. The US government has announced it will not list the Pacific walrus as a threatened species based on diminished Arctic Ocean sea ice, concluding that the marine mammals have adapted to the loss.