https://padlet.com/20amalston/vligyzxqbzoh Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2019-02-14 20:41:05 UTC 2024-11-17 11:00:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Babyhead.png 20amalston https://padlet.com/20amalston/vligyzxqbzoh/wish/331524531 High-powered hunting rifles are the tools of the trade for poachers in South Africa and Mozambique. Steady and deadly accurate, the rifles are capable of dropping a rhinoceros with one shot from long distances, and are a major reason the rhinos in those African countries, highly valued for their horns, are pushing toward extinction.]]> 2019-02-14 20:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/20amalston/vligyzxqbzoh/wish/331524531 20amalston https://padlet.com/20amalston/vligyzxqbzoh/wish/331525967 Three years ago, Sandy McDonald began finding the rifles, left behind by poachers, scattered near the dead rhinos he found in the game reserve he owns in Mozambique, just across the border from South Africa.]]> 2019-02-14 20:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/20amalston/vligyzxqbzoh/wish/331525967 20amalston https://padlet.com/20amalston/vligyzxqbzoh/wish/331526214 In a 2013 executive order , Mr. Obama called wildlife trafficking a national security issue because of its devastation of African wildlife and its destabilizing effect on local communities. Another order signed by Mr. Trump last year directed law enforcement agencies to increase their efforts to dismantle transnational smuggling organizations, including wildlife traffickers.]]> 2019-02-14 20:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/20amalston/vligyzxqbzoh/wish/331526214 20amalston https://padlet.com/20amalston/vligyzxqbzoh/wish/331526447 The American government has also stationed law enforcement officers from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in several African countries, including Botswana, to help local officials fight poachers. Over all, the American government spends about $150 million a year in efforts to fight wildlife trafficking and poaching.]]> 2019-02-14 20:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/20amalston/vligyzxqbzoh/wish/331526447 20amalston https://padlet.com/20amalston/vligyzxqbzoh/wish/331526645 Now agents from the Commerce Department and the Department of Homeland Security are investigating whether CZ or its subsidiary violated American laws by exporting rifles to Mozambique and whether the company continued to sell weapons even after being warned as early as 2015 that the rifles were used by poachers to kill protected wildlife in South Africa.]]> 2019-02-14 20:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/20amalston/vligyzxqbzoh/wish/331526645 20amalston https://padlet.com/20amalston/vligyzxqbzoh/wish/331717812 2019-02-15 13:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/20amalston/vligyzxqbzoh/wish/331717812