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Update: Utah man denies plans to hunt elephants, claims he sought permit to import African trophies for a filmmaking project

South Ogden author Cliff Graham — one of 16 U.S. residents to get controversial federal permits this year — says he is ‘adamantly opposed’ to trophy hunting in Zimbabwe.

(AP file photo) Elephants cross a road in the Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, seen in 2015. Wildlife groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its Nov. 17, 2017 decision to lift a ban on importing hunting trophies to the U.S. from Zimbabwe as well the agency’s decision to issue permits to import trophies to 16 U.S. hunters — including a Utah man — ostensibly while that ban was still in place.