Paul Ross Jackson, 63, of Evergreen, pleaded guilty on April 24 to violating the Endangered Species Act and was immediately sentenced to pay the maximum fine of $25,000 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Scott T. Varholak.
According to a release from the U.S. attorney’s office, the defendant violated Zimbabwe’s Parks and Wild Life Act when he shot and killed an African elephant inside Gonarezhou National Park in the spring of 2015.
Jackson, working with a South Africa-based professional hunter, a New-York based export facilitator and several Zimbabwe-based hunting businesses, gave instructions to have the elephant exported to South Africa, where he hoped to sell in foreign commerce 26 and 27 kilogram ivory tusks, the release said.
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