{"id":6137,"date":"2019-10-25T08:53:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T05:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6137"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"youths-from-around-the-world-champion-wildlife-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/25\/youths-from-around-the-world-champion-wildlife-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Youths From Around The World Champion Wildlife Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By\nUN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Environmental\ncrime has become the world&#8217;s fourth-largest crime sector, growing at 2\u20133 times\nthe rate of the global economy. INTERPOL and the United Nations Environment Programme\n(UNEP) estimate that natural resources worth up to US$258 billion are being\nstolen by criminal syndicates, depriving countries of their resources, revenues\nand development opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nWorld Youth Wildlife Summit took place in September at the Kruger National Park\nin South Africa, bringing together educators and conservation leaders to\ndiscuss and address the threat of wildlife crime. About 150 young\nconservationists from the Southern African Development Community and their\ncounterparts learned how to influence environmental policies at national,\nregional and international levels. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/youths-around-world-champion-wildlife-protection\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Environmental crime has become the world&#8217;s fourth-largest crime sector, growing at 2\u20133 times the rate of the global economy. INTERPOL and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}