imagine the scenario of 2080 wildlife
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Wildlife in future will be not so good
The threat to elephants has really come to a head, and people have recognized how deadly serious it is. If you look across Africa, elephants continue to be heavily poached. There’s a lot of ivory coming out of Central Africa and some real bad hot spots in southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique. But we’ve had significant turnaround in Kenya. As a country it has really stuck in its heels, and a lot of local communities and landowners have stepped up. Conversely, there’s been a real uptick in poaching of southern African rhinos because of organized operations from Mozambique.
On the plus side, there has been a recognition that the illegal wildlife trade is hugely important — as a conservation and a security issue. Countries recognize that the organized crime of wildlife trafficking is having a big negative impact and fueling insurgencies. You see Europe and the U.S. making significant investments, and the recent domestic ivory ban after the CITES meeting in South Africa is urging countries to close their domestic markets to stop the laundering of illegal ivory. All of that is building to what I hope will be the Chinese closing down their domestic ivory market.
A big loss has been Grauer’s gorillas in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The population has dropped by 70 percent, I think, in the last two to three years because people hunt them for bush meat.
On the upside, pandas are doing very well. The Chinese have done a good job at bringing them back from the edge of extinction. There’s also been an incredible interest in establishing marine protected areas, where fishing is managed more effectively. President Obama created the largest MPA in the world in Hawaii in August 2017.
The threat to elephants has really come to a head, and people have recognized how deadly serious it is. If you look across Africa, elephants continue to be heavily poached. There’s a lot of ivory coming out of Central Africa and some real bad hot spots in southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique. But we’ve had significant turnaround in Kenya. As a country it has really stuck in its heels, and a lot of local communities and landowners have stepped up. Conversely, there’s been a real uptick in poaching of southern African rhinos because of organized operations from Mozambique.
On the plus side, there has been a recognition that the illegal wildlife trade is hugely important — as a conservation and a security issue. Countries recognize that the organized crime of wildlife trafficking is having a big negative impact and fueling insurgencies. You see Europe and the U.S. making significant investments, and the recent domestic ivory ban after the CITES meeting in South Africa is urging countries to close their domestic markets to stop the laundering of illegal ivory. All of that is building to what I hope will be the Chinese closing down their domestic ivory market.
A big loss has been Grauer’s gorillas in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The population has dropped by 70 percent, I think, in the last two to three years because people hunt them for bush meat.
On the upside, pandas are doing very well. The Chinese have done a good job at bringing them back from the edge of extinction. There’s also been an incredible interest in establishing marine protected areas, where fishing is managed more effectively. President Obama created the largest MPA in the world in Hawaii in August 2017.
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