{"id":6215,"date":"2019-10-29T12:25:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T09:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"youths-from-around-the-world-champion-wildlife-protection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/29\/youths-from-around-the-world-champion-wildlife-protection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Youths From Around The World Champion Wildlife Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By UN Environment <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Environmental crime has become the world&#8217;s fourth-largest\ncrime sector, growing at 2\u20133 times the rate of the global economy.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interpol.int\/en\">INTERPOL<\/a>&nbsp;and\nthe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/explore-topics\/environmental-rights-and-governance\/what-we-do\/supporting-2030-agenda\/un-environment\">United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)<\/a>&nbsp;estimate\nthat natural resources worth up to US$258 billion are being stolen by criminal\nsyndicates, depriving countries of their resources, revenues and development\nopportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Youth Wildlife Summit took place in September at\nthe Kruger National Park in South Africa, bringing together educators and\nconservation leaders to discuss and address the threat of wildlife crime. About\n150 young conservationists from the Southern African Development Community and\ntheir counterparts learned how to influence environmental policies at national,\nregional and international levels\u2026<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.&nbsp;INTERPOL&nbsp;and the&nbsp;United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)&nbsp;estimate that natural resources&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6216,"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-6215","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\/6215","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=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}