Hillary Clinton kupambana na Majangili wa Tembo

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Hillary Rodham Clinton amekubali kuchukua jukumu vita ya kuokoa tembo barani Afrika, ambao wamekuwa wakichinjwa kwa kiasi kikubwa na cha kutisha ili kupata pembe zao ambazo mahitaji yake yanaongezeka kwa kasi katika nchi za China na nchi zingine za Asia.

My take:
Pale Rais Obama aliposema anatoa $10m kusaidia huu mradi kuna 'wadau' walishaanza kutafuta plot maana walijua neema inakuja.
Na kwa hatua hii, 'mzee wa tembo' ataendelea kufurukuta au atadhibitiwa!

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[h=1]Hillary Rodham Clinton's new cause: combating elephant poaching
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Hillary Rodham Clinton will join with environmentalists to press for an end to elephant poaching (Credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Hillary Rodham Clinton has agreed to take up the public fight of saving African elephants, who are being slaughtered in large numbers to supply the growing demand for ivory in China and other Asian countries.

Clinton, who met privately with representatives from a dozen environmental groups and National Geographic at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Central Park Zoo on Monday, pledged to use her political connections as America's former secretary of state to enlist other world leaders in the effort to curtail the illegal ivory trade.
Cristian Samper, WCS president and CEO, said in an interview that elephant poaching has reached such a crisis point that the world's leading conservation groups are launching a coordinated strategy to address the problem.
Clinton agreed to "take some very specific steps, including using her political contacts with heads of state in trying to raise awareness about this issue," Samper said. "This is an issue that needs to be elevated, not just in terms of public awareness, but particularly with the political leaders in other countries."



As the demand for ivory has grown in Asia - where the ivory from a tusk can sell for $1,000 a pound - the poaching of African elephants has exploded. Roughly 30,000 African elephants were killed illegally in 2012, the largest number in 20 years.
There were roughly 1.2 million elephants in Africa in 1980, compared to roughly 420,000 last year. The African forest elephant, which resides in the Congo Basin and is smaller than the renowned savannah African elephant, has been hit particularly hard. This spring, WCS estimated that the population of African forest elephants plummeted 76 percent in the last decade.
"The fact that we've lost three quarters of the elephants, it's alarming and clearly we have to do something about it," Samper said.

As secretary of state, Clinton showed an interest in the plight of African elephants, hosting a conference on the issue in Washington last year. Clinton could not be reached for comment Monday night.
The groups at the meeting - including the African Parks Network, the American Association of Zoos and Aquaria, Conservation International, the Nature Conservancy, TRAFFIC and the World Wildlife Fund - agreed to pursue a three-pronged strategy aimed at stopping the killing, trafficking and demand for elephants.
Two weeks ago, President Obama launched a major initiative aimed at curbing wildlife trafficking, creating a Cabinet-level presidential task force charged with devising a national strategy and pledging $10 million in technological and training assistance to African governments so they could better combat poaching.

 

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[h=1]Obama announces initiative to combat wildlife trafficking
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President Obama launched an initiative in Tanzania on Monday aimed at combating illegal wildlife trafficking and curbing widespread poaching of rhinos and elephants in Africa.
Using his executive authority, Obama established a Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking composed of the State, Interior and Justice departments to devise a national strategy over the next six months. He also created an independent, eight-member advisory panel that will offer recommendations to the task force.
In addition, the State Department will provide $10 million in training and technical assistance to combat poaching in Africa. Three million dollars will go to South Africa, $3 million to Kenya and $4 million elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa.

"The president's announcement puts wildlife trade on the map and raises its profile beyond a niche issue to one of global importance," said Carter Roberts, president and chief executive of the World Wildlife Fund in the United States. "These are global crime syndicates that are robbing the wealth of Africa and it is fueling the trade of other things, such as drugs and arms. And eventually it will drive these species extinct."
The hunting of elephants, rhinos, sharks and other species in developing nations for sale to wealthier countries is valued at $7 billion to $10 billion per year, placing it among drugs and human trafficking as one of the world's top illegal markets.
The demand for animal parts, driven largely by Asia, has had a devastating effect on African wildlife. About 30,000 elephants were killed illegally in 2012 - the largest number in 20 years. South Africa has lost almost 450 rhinos so far in 2013, which could make this year a record for that animal.
Grant Harris, the senior director for Africa for the National Security Council, told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Tanzania that the president will assign a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official to that country to help tackle poaching.
With a black-market price of $30,000 a pound, Harris said, rhinoceros horns are "literally worth greater than their weight in gold." Ivory from elephant tusks is selling for $1,000 a pound.
On Monday, South Sudan's Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism announced that the government has expanded efforts to protect its remaining elephants by fitting animals with collars for remote tracking. The action aims to preserve an elephant population decimated by years of civil war and ivory poaching.

 

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Hillary Rodham Clinton amekubali kuchukua jukumu vita ya kuokoa tembo barani Afrika, ambao wamekuwa wakichinjwa kwa kiasi kikubwa na cha kutisha ili kupata pembe zao ambazo mahitaji yake yanaongezeka kwa kasi katika nchi za China na nchi zingine za Asia.

My take:
Pale Rais Obama aliposema anatoa $10m kusaidia huu mradi kuna 'wadau' walishaanza kutafuta plot maana walijua neema inakuja.
Na kwa hatua hii, 'mzee wa tembo' ataendelea kufurukuta au atadhibitiwa!

Nawasilisha

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