https://www.fenoglioboot.com/

Keep your money in North Texas

They put money back into the community and are a better boot IMO.

Of course they don’t spend the kind of money on advertisement the other company does.

I have a question I'm probably going to get jumped on for sounding like PETA. Seems like every boot company out there makes an elephant boot. Where are all the elephant hides coming from?

Tenashe Farawo, the chief spokesman for the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (ZimParks), the leading hide supplier, says the largest source is actually “elephants we have had to put down because of conflicts with humans.” This has been described by critics and officials alike as “culling” to control elephant overpopulation, but Farawo disputes the term: “We last did culling in the 1980s,” he says, adding that the second source is natural mortality.

Worldwide, hide exports have held steady or grown during the past decade, far surpassing those in preceding years. In 2007-16, according to CITES data (which are recorded inconsistently), Zimbabwe and South Africa together exported the whole hides of 38,858 elephants plus another 609,000 square feet and 21,504 pounds of skins and leatherwork. At an average 20 square feet per processed hide, these would represent more than 30,000 elephants.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which regulates wild animal imports, and a leading conservation organization, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), essentially concur. “The problems with African elephants do not center around the legal skin/leather trade,” WWF’s wildlife practice policy manager, Colman O’Criodain, said in an email. “The problem lies with unsustainable demand—principally in China—for ivory.”

I have a question I'm probably going to get jumped on for sounding like PETA. Seems like every boot company out there makes an elephant boot. Where are all the elephant hides coming from?

I have a question I'm probably going to get jumped on for sounding like PETA. Seems like every boot company out there makes an elephant boot. Where are all the elephant hides coming from?