{"id":515,"date":"2013-10-16T12:54:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/?p=515"},"modified":"2013-10-16T12:54:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:54:48","slug":"event-battle-for-the-elephants-at-ira-allen-chapel-oct-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/2013\/10\/16\/event-battle-for-the-elephants-at-ira-allen-chapel-oct-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENT: &#8220;Battle for the Elephants&#8221; at Ira Allen Chapel, Oct. 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Wildlife Conservation Society for a special screening and discussion of\u00a0<strong>National Geographic&#8217;s &#8220;Battle for the Elephants&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>When:<\/strong> Thursday, October 17, 2013,\u00a04:00 pm (doors open at 3:30)<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Where:<\/strong> Ira Allen Chapel, University of Vermont<\/p>\n<p>Following the screening will be a panel discussion on solutions to stopping the ivory trade and decimation of elephant populations with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Heminway, writer and director of this award-winning film<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Ginsberg, Senior Vice President of the Global Conservation Program of WCS<\/li>\n<li>Laura Neme, local author and international consultant on wildlife and natural resources<\/li>\n<li>Jame Deutsch, Executive Director of the Africa Program of<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The issue of elephant poaching in Africa right now is at a record high, literally decimating the species.\u00a0 The number of elephants alive today is the smallest number ever recorded.\u00a0 An elephant is killed every 15 minutes for their tusks, with an estimated 36,000 being slaughtered each year.\u00a0 If the killing continues at the current level, elephants could be extinct in a decade.\u00a0 On September 26th, former\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.washingtonpost.com\/2013-09-26\/politics\/42417881_1_killing-elephants-president-ali-bongo-ivory\">Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a new global initiative<\/a>\u00a0to protect Africa\u2019s wild elephants from poaching.\u00a0 This ecological crisis is also increasingly connected to global security crises through links between the ivory trade and militia\/terrorist groups.\u00a0 Wildlife trafficking is one of the largest illegal trading activities in the world, after drugs and guns.\u00a0 According to Peter Seligmann, the CEO of Conservation International, \u201cPoaching has become an enormous problem and one of the most profitable criminal activities there is.\u00a0 It\u2019s destabilizing to nations, it\u2019s a threat to security forces and it\u2019s a serious loss for local economies that depend on wildlife.\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/science.time.com\/2013\/09\/26\/at-cgi-a-commitment-to-stop-the-bloody-slaughter-of-african-elephants\/\">Time, Sep. 26<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Wildlife Conservation Society for a special screening and discussion of\u00a0National Geographic&#8217;s &#8220;Battle for the Elephants&#8221; When: Thursday, October 17, 2013,\u00a04:00 pm (doors open at 3:30) Where: Ira Allen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/2013\/10\/16\/event-battle-for-the-elephants-at-ira-allen-chapel-oct-17th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}