by twenty twenty three although he admitted that date is rather ambitious the move was welcomed by european council president donald tusk it s likely to provoke anger with moscow a chinese woman nicknamed the ivory queen has been jailed for fifteen years in tanzania for smuggling yang fangirl and one of africa s most notorious traffickers was convicted of organizing the sale of more than two thousand kilograms of ivory tusks all tanzania s elephant population has more than half in the past decade due to poaching for their tusks. now every year they give the freedom of speech award to an individual a group of individuals who have championed human rights and free speech in the media often at great personal risk and this year the award goes to a journalist on about hernandez who you see here behind me for her work investigating mexico s drug cartels and exposing corruption in the mexican government her books on our katic such trafficking have sold hundreds of thousands
has announced his candidacy for next year s u.s. presidential election cory booker is a u.s. senator from new jersey before that he was the mayor of the city of newark he joins a rapidly growing crowd of candidates seeking the democratic party nomination. brazilian authorities fear that last week s collapse of a mining dam may have polluted the nearby south river tests show that the presence of metals in the water a spike to unhealthy levels since the disaster one hundred ten people have been confirmed dead another tour than thirty eight are listed missing. customs officers in hong kong have seen a record eight tons of penn golden scales in a container from nigeria the scales of the anteater like creature are highly valued in traditional chinese medicine to towns of ivory tusks were also discovered the find highlights hong kong s role in the booming illegal wildlife trade a man and a woman from a local business have been arrested. residents of a russian town south of moscow are facing
internet you can forget any progress that conservationists thought they were making the demand is digital and your purchase of an exotic parrot or some rhino horn is just a click away around one hundred fifty years ago africa was home to millions of rhinos and allison s since then their populations have been devastated and now due to a surge in poaching they re facing extinction in the wild national parks have to employ security guards to protect the animals from hunters but they re often too late as in the case of these elephants killed for their ivory tusks ivory s in high demand globally it s used to make religious figurines artworks and jewelry and it s often available on the internets. staff of the international fund for animal welfare spend week surfing through more than one hundred internet portals targeting users in germany france britain and russia they found thousands of offering life
now due to a surge in poaching they re facing extinction in the wild national parks have to employ security guards to protect the animals from hunters but they re often too late as in the case of these elephants killed for their ivory tusks ivory s in high demand globally it s used to make religious figurines artworks and jewelry and it s often available on the internet. stuff at the international fund for animal welfare spend week surfing through more than one hundred internet portals targeting users in germany france britain and russia they found thousands of offering life wild animals and animal products worth millions of dollars. it takes just a few clicks to purchase rare animals like exotic birds reptiles and primates the legal wildlife trade is estimated to be worth at least nineteen billion u.s. dollars a year when it comes to criminal activity only drugs counterfeit products and human
luckily, the geico insurance agency recently helped baa baa with renters insurance. everything stolen was replaced. and the hooligan who lives down the lane was caught selling the stolen goods online. visit geico.com and see how easy it is to switch and save on renters insurance. the trump administration is rolling back an obama ban on importing endangered elephant trophies from africa, often taken for their valuable ivory tusks. according to the fish and wildlife sfrervice, the lift on the ban will permit killing of elephants in zimbabwe to be allowed into the u.s. trump and his son are big game hunters. they have been seen holding up