Hi All,

In addition to the Wildlife Now website, this is an important information source on Mkomazi National Park of TZ, which also discusses their additional work at Kora in Kenya.

This newsletter is a pretty up to date annual assessment with great pictures of all the work these people are doing for wildlife and local peoples in Africa.  Download this newsletter and print a few copies at your convenience maybe.  Great background for our project.  Enjoy!

http://www.wildlifenow.com/PDFs/GAWPT%20Newsletter%202012.pdf

Hi All,

George Newman of OPEN here. Thank you all for your early contributions to this very promising cross-the planet initiative to save the black rhino!! I know we can do it if we work together, joining hands across the nations, through our smart, creative and motivated students.  Both Mr. Ronelus and I will be sending along some additional information about our moderately ambitious plans for this program, which we hope to extend well beyond this summer pilot. This is the start of something great and powerful for all people of the world sharing this precious life giving blue marble. Thanks again everyone, we will be back in touch soon.

Hallo everyone,
This is Herine from Nairobi Kenya. We are settling down to preparing for the Black Rhino project. Today the kids have been asked to gather as much information about wildlife in Kenya as much as possible. Beyond what they know from everyday life, pay attention to some of the challanges facing wildlife in Kenya. We will have an open forum discussion about the same tomorrow; after that we will get them to do specific research about the black Rhino. By the time they connect to their newyork pals, I believe they will have so much to dicuss-enjoy doing so.

Obama to Tackle Africa’s Wildlife Trafficking Crisis

Date: 01 Jul 2013

By: Rhishja Cota-Larson

Tag: Africa, Barack Obama, China, Hillary Clinton, illegal wildlife trade, ivory, John Kerry, policy, politics, rhino horn, Tanzania, traditional Chinese medicine, Vietnam, wildlife crime, wildlife trafficking

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President Obama’s new initiative to combat wildlife trafficking will kick off in Tanzania. Photo by John Storr via Wikimedia Commons

President Obama is launching a new initiative to combat Africa’s illegal wildlife trade crisis, which will include $10 million “specifically earmarked” for addressing the issue.

According to The Washington Post, “Obama will convene a Cabinet-level task force composed of the State, Interior and Justice departments that will be charged with devising a national strategy to curb the illegal trade of wildlife across the globe.” The initiative will kick off in Tanzania.
WWF welcomed the news, calling it “groundbreaking” and posting the following statement from President Obama:

Poaching and trafficking is threatening Africa’s wildlife. Today I issued a new Executive Order to better organize U.S. government efforts in this fight so that we can cooperate with the Tanzanian government and others. This includes an additional millions of dollars to help countries across the regions to build their capacity to meet this challenge.

The Executive Order includes:

• A $10 million pledge to improve protection for threatened wildlife populations in key African countries.
• A Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking to develop a national strategy within six months to fight wildlife crime, which will receive recommendations from an Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking of independent experts.
• A review of the federal government’s Transnational Organized Crime Strategy to consider adding wildlife trafficking to the list of crimes it covers, elevating it to the same level as arms, drug and human trafficking.

The entire world has a stake in making sure we preserve Africa’s beauty for future generations.

Demand for wildlife parts comes mainly from Asia, with China’s appetite wiping out elephants, pangolins, and other threatened African species. Meanwhile, Vietnam is a major destination for rhino horns sourced in Africa.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said that the issue of demand reduction had been brought up by the President in meetings with China.

I know its come up at the president and the Secretary of State level with the Chinese. A lot of these syndicates are based in China.

Grant Harris, the senior director for Africa for the National Security Council, noted that the issue of wildlife trafficking figured prominently in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s policy.
And even before his appointment as current Secretary of State, John Kerry elevated the wildlife trafficking crisis to a high level. On May 24th, 2012, he presided over the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Hearing, which examined the connection between global insecurity and a surging ivory and rhino horn trade.
Under President Obama’s timely initiative, the US seems poised for an active role in fighting the global wildlife trafficking crisis.

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Saving The Black Rhino Project-Great Works From the Land of the Black Rhino

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Rhino Game Preparation outcomes

Kids at the market place had much interest in drawing pictures using paint activity on the XO sugar lab activities

Here are some of the pictures drawn by kids at the marketplace which they would like to share ideas with kids in USA and other partnering kids globally. You find that the activity had draw attentions of kids after they so and had the Skype test on Wednesday 3^rd that started at 4.00 p.m East African time.

Kids learning about saving Black Rhino through art and discussions.

In East Africa, Kenya being one of them, kids are eager to know what measures are being taken to save the black rhino. Kids are dwelling on Africa as an epidemic area for Rhino life as its said that, this year in south Africa has lost more than 290 Rhinos which sounds terrible to the family of rhinoceros all over the world.
This shows that at least two rhinos are loosing life a day compared to last year's killings (2012) where poachers killed 668.
Great interest is to know why East Asia especially Vietnam  is activating the Rhino killings buy legalizing the buying and selling of Rhino products.
Their cry of the kids is to ask African leaders to enforce security forces in place the secure rhinos globally.

What results to killings
believes that their products results to wealth and medical misinformation.

hello everyone! This is Shadowdaya123! And big news! From Mr.R

We are going to start the rhino project with the kids from Africa soon. I need everyone to get ready! Mr.R says. So everyone get ready for this event!