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Montana man faces sentencing for cloning giant sheep to breed large sheep for captive trophy hunts (apnews.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is this illegal? Who cares?

[–] egrets 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.