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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Clinton announces program aimed at stamping out elephant poaching, ivory trade
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-announces-program-aimed-at-stamping-out-elephant-poaching-ivory-trade/2013/09/26/3c258c40-26c1-11e3-b3e9-d97fb087acd6_story.htmlHillary Clinton announces program aimed at stamping out elephant poaching, ivory trade
By Philip Rucker, Published: SEPTEMBER 26, 3:54 PM ET
NEW YORK Hillary Rodham Clinton announced a new global effort Thursday to protect Africas wild elephants from poaching, part of a long-running personal crusade for the former secretary of state.
Clinton joined the presidents of several African nations and wildlife preservation advocates to unveil an $80 million, three-year program aimed at ending ivory trafficking, including new park guards at major elephant ranges and sniffer-dog teams at global transit points.
The announcement was a centerpiece of the final day of the Clinton Global Initiative, the Clinton familys annual charitable gathering in New York. In remarks at a Thursday luncheon, Clinton said the slaughter of elephants for their ivory tusks had reached crisis proportions.
Unless the killing stops, African forest elephants are expected to be extinct within 10 years, Clinton said. I cant even grasp what a great disaster this is ecologically, but also for anyone who shares this planet to lose a magnificent creature like the African forest elephant seems like such a rebuke to our own values.
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Hillary Clinton announces program aimed at stamping out elephant poaching, ivory trade (Original Post)
G_j
Sep 2013
OP
I'm very glad this effort is in place and that she's on the side of preservation.
nolabear
Sep 2013
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Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)1. That's it! She's running!
This will clear the field.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)2. That's all very good
But what's her opinion of the tea party and what's going on now with the debt ceiling and other mundane matters here in the US where we are needing all the guidance we can get from our leading politicians?
G_j
(40,367 posts)4. pretty sure she can walk and chew gum...
nolabear
(41,990 posts)5. I'm very glad this effort is in place and that she's on the side of preservation.
Imagine those wonderful creatures gone. The world would be forever bereft.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)7. Good for her...knr...trafficking in ivory sickens me.