Crippled economies and industries worldwide, but it hasnt slowed down the illegal wildlife trade. Experts say the trade in illegal bush meat has exploded and believe poachers are stockpiling ivory until sea cargo returns to normal levels. So the launch of a new Wildlife Centre in singapore has come at a good time. Authorities there seized nine tonnes of ivory worth more than 13 million us in 2019. The haul was recently crushed and the process live streamed on the internet. But before they destroyed it, researchers carried out dna testing on the ivory in a new facility designed to help wildlife detectives track down those responsible. Part of that project is sam wasser, the director of the center for conservation biology at the university of washington in seattle. Speaking a little earlier he explained how covid 19 has affected the illegal wildlife trade. Covid 19 has essentially eliminated tourist dollars among protected areas across africa and one of the things that has resulted in is
Seasonal flu. In public stuff and more dangerous than seasonalflu. In public he stuff and more dangerous than seasonal flu. In public he was saying something different. Covid i9 may have crippled economies and industries worldwide, but it hasnt slowed down the illegal wildlife trade. Experts say the trade in illegal bush meat has exploded and believe poachers are stockpiling ivory until sea cargo returns to normal levels. So the launch of a new Wildlife Centre in singapore has come at a good time. Authorities there seized nine tonnes of ivory worth more than 13 million us in 2019. The haul was recently crushed and the process live streamed on the internet. But before they destroyed it, researchers carried out dna testing on the ivory in a new facility designed to help wildlife detectives track down those responsible. Part of that project is sam wohser, the director of the center for conservation biology at the university of washington in seattle. Speaking a little earlier he explained
Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Im kasia madera, do stay with us for the latest news and analysis. We start in the us where donald trump has been accused of deliberately misleading the American People about the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic. The claims come in a new book by the Journalist Bob Woodward. But theyve now been picked up by the democratic president ial candidate joe biden. Hes accused President Trump of lying to the American People for months about and failing to do hisjob. Nick bryant reports from new york. Even as the coronavirus began claiming scores of american lives, the us president publicly talked down the threat. It will go away. You know it is going away and it will go away and we will have a great victory. But at the same time, donald trump was telling the legendary watergate Journalist Bob Woodward that he had deliberately played down the pandemic, even though he understood the deadliness of the virus. Well, ithink, bob, to