The 45-year-old Sudan, the sole remaining male of the rare subspecies of white rhino, died in Kenya. By CAMILLA SCHICK on March 20, 2018. Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters.
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Intelligence Community Targets Wildlife Trafficking
Intelligence Community Targets Wildlife Trafficking
“The entire world has a stake in protecting the world’s iconic animals,
and the United States is strongly committed to meeting its obligation to help preserve the Earth’s natural beauty for future generations.”
– President Barack Obama
Giants Club: African leaders to gather in Kenya to tackle elephant poaching crisis
In the past three years, poachers have killed 100,000 elephants in Africa for illegal ivory markets AFP/Getty Images
By Alex Dymoke
February 26, 2016 / The Independent
The President of Kenya is to host a historic gathering of African leaders in April to address the elephant-poaching crisis in the first meeting of the Giants Club, the wildlife-protection initiative backed by The Independent.
It will be followed by the burning of a vast 120 tonne stockpile of ivory, much of it seized by the Kenyan state from poaching gangs, to show the government’s zero tolerance to the illegal wildlife trade. The blaze will be eight times larger than any ivory stockpile previously destroyed before.
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We beat the ivory trade once. Now we must beat it once and for all.
By Uhuru Kenyatta; President of Kenya
February 26, 2016/ The Independent
I am delighted to host the inaugural Giants Club Summit in Kenya at the end of April. Alongside other African heads of state, we will use this opportunity to underline the global intent to put an end, once again, to the butchering of elephants and rhinos by selfish criminal gangs.
I say once again because we have done it before. In 1990, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) banned the international ivory trade after a decade in which the population of African elephants halved from 1.3 million to 600,000 animals. Continue reading
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