It's Time to Get #SeriousAboutWildlifeCrime
Wildlife trafficking is a multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise that poses a serious and urgent threat to conservation and national security. The increasing involvement of organized crime in poaching and wildlife trafficking promotes corruption, threatens the peace and security of fragile regions, strengthens illicit trade routes, and destabilizes economies and communities that depend on wildlife for their livelihoods.
In 2013, the Rhino population in Africa and Asia Rhino was ONLY 29,000. This number is shockingly lowing comparison to the 500,000 Rhinos that existed in the early 20th century. What happened?
The Rhino is poached for it’s horn, that is in high demand in Asia. The horn is ground up into a powder that is used in Asia to anything from a cold to cancer. One kilo of a Rhino horn is worth up to $100,000. One kilo of gold is only worth about $40,000. So yeah– a Rhino horns more expensive than gold
Not only is The Horn used to cure cancer’s and colds, it is also used to cure hangovers, symbolize power if obtained, and it is also be used as a party drug.
This year, two species of Rhino are on the Wildlife Day’s Top 5 Critically Endangered Species List! They need our HELP!!
5 critically endangered species dying out in the wild
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/world-wildlife-day-2015-5-critically-endangered-species-dying-out-wild-1490135
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/04/rhino-poaching_n_4039346.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
African Wildlife Foundation
The African Wildlife Foundation, founded in 1961 as the African Wildlife Leadership Foundation, is an international conservation organization that focuses on critically important landscapes in Africa.
Mission “ The African Wildlife Foundation, together with the people of Africa, works to ensure the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever. “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yccID-2jlfM
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