Montana man faces sentencing for cloning giant sheep to breed large sheep for captive trophy hunts
Montana man faces sentencing for cloning giant sheep to breed large sheep for captive trophy hunts
An 81-year-old Montana has been sentenced to six months in federal prison and ordered to pay $24,000 in penalties for using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunts in Texas and Minnesota.
An 81-year-old Montana man is expected to be sentenced for using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunts in Texas and Minnesota.
Why is this illegal? Who cares?
For some reason, the AP only mention this explicitly in their original article, not the linked follow-up article:
[Marco Polo argali sheep from Central Asia] are protected under international convention as a threatened species and outlawed for import into Montana to protect native sheep from disease and hybridization.
It seems to be the Lacey Act he's charged with violating.