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Protecting African Wildlife" When we see land as community to which we belong,
we may begin to use it with love & respect "- Aldo Leopold -
Our Mission is Progressive" If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more,
do more and become more, you are a leader "- John Quincey Adams -
Defending and Preserving" It is not enough to understand the natural world,
the point is to defend & preserve it "- Edward Abbey -
Protecting African Wildlife" When we see land as community to which we belong,
we may begin to use it with love & respect "- Aldo Leopold -
Our Mission is Progressive" If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more,
do more and become more, you are a leader "- John Quincey Adams -
Defending and Preserving
" It is not enough to understand the natural world,
the point is to defend & preserve it "- Edward Abbey -
Protecting African Wildlife" When we see land as community to which we belong,
we may begin to use it with love & respect "- Aldo Leopold
It's the fourth largest criminal enterprise after drugs, human trafficking, and counterfeiting.
- It's growing faster than global GNP.
- Money lost from it is 10,000 times greater than international agencies fighting it.
- It's risen by 5-7% in the past ten years.
- Elephant and rhino slaughter has grown more than 25% a year over the last decade.
- Wildlife crime and trafficking is growing fastest is Africa. The report says that "more than one quarter of the world's population has been killed in a decade."
African Wildlife Protection Fund, 2017
