{"id":65441,"date":"2013-07-02T01:18:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T00:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/actualites\/2013\/07\/02\/obama-announces-an-executive-order-to-help-african-countries-combat-poaching-and-wildlife-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T01:18:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T00:18:25","slug":"obama-announces-an-executive-order-to-help-african-countries-combat-poaching-and-wildlife-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/news\/2013\/07\/02\/obama-announces-an-executive-order-to-help-african-countries-combat-poaching-and-wildlife-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama announces an executive order to help African countries combat poaching and wildlife trafficking."},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama is committing to help combat poaching and wildlife trafficking in Africa. During his state visit to Tanzania on July 1st, he announced that he had signed a new executive order aimed at better organizing the US government’s efforts in the fight against poaching, in order to cooperate more effectively with African governments.<\/p>\n

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The executive order includes:<\/p>\n

. $10 million in aid to improve protection of threatened animal populations in the African countries most affected<\/p>\n

. a Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking to develop a national strategy against organized crime within six months<\/p>\n

. a review of the Federal Government’s Transnational Organized Crime Strategy, to consider adding wildlife trafficking to the list of crimes it covers.<\/p>\n

Poaching and wildlife trafficking have reached historic levels in recent years, with repercussions for regional conflicts and the national security of the African countries concerned.<\/p>\n

Nearly 30,000 elephants are killed every year for their ivory.<\/p>\n

President Obama stated:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire world must help ensure that Africa’s beauty is preserved for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

WWF article: Obama pledges support to stop wildlife crime in Africa<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Barack Obama is committing to help combat poaching and wildlife trafficking in Africa. During his state visit to Tanzania on July 1st, he announced that he had signed a new executive order aimed at better organizing the US government’s efforts in the fight against poaching, in order to cooperate more effectively with African governments.   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mood-pieces"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}