The first-ever Global Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking
Online said it is bringing together companies worldwide in partnership with
wildlife experts at World Wildlife Fund (WWF), TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade
monitoring network, and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) in a
bid to reduce wildlife trafficking online by 80 percent by 2020.
The Coalition said 21 tech firms from North America, Asia,
Europe, and Africa will join forces with Google and WWF to render online platforms and
apps inoperable for wildlife traffickers to trade endangered species.
Those companies pledged to develop and implement policies and
solutions to help end wildlife trafficking online, it said.
The founding members of the Global Coalition to End Wildlife
Trafficking Online include China's e-commerce giant Alibaba, top search engine
company Baidu, and Tencent, a leading Internet company based in the southern
Chinese city of Shenzhen.
Joining Google as founding members of the Coalition are top U.S. tech
giants, such as Facebook, Microsoft and Ebay.
"Bringing these industry giants together is the best shot
at systematically closing the open web to wildlife traffickers," said
Crawford Allan, senior director of wildlife crime & TRAFFIC at WWF.
Those firms are uniting to ensure an Internet where traffickers
have nowhere left to turn, he said.
The annual value of wildlife crime globally is as much as 20
billion U.S. dollars, according to the United Nations (UN) Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species.
More than 20,000 African elephants are illegally killed each
year for their tusks, and nearly three rhinos are poached each day in South
Africa alone for their horns, said the Coalition.
"Google is proud to partner with WWF as a founding member
of this Coalition, and to join other companies in working to protect endangered
species from illegal wildlife trade online," said David Graff, senior
director of Trust and Safety Global Product Policy at Google.
🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏
The Palm Springs Guru
wants to acknowledge these world-leading tech companies that are part of the anti-trafficking
coalition: Alibaba, Baidu, Baixing, eBay, Etsy, Facebook, Google, Huaxia
Collection, Instagram, Kuaishou, Mall for Africa, Microsoft, Pinterest, Qyer,
Ruby Lane, Shengshi Collection, Tencent, Wen Wan Tian Xia, Zhongyikupai,
Zhuanzhuan and 58 Group. Thank you for your commitment to fight wildlife
trafficking.
🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏
The Palm Springs Guru says “Thank You.” To my friend KNEWS radio
star Bill Feingold, http://www.knewsradio.com/shows/bill-feingold-show/ for
bringing this story to his listeners in Palm Springs and around the world.
Thank you too, Bill for posting this information on your Facebook
page: https://www.facebook.com/billfeingoldshow/
🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏
Thank you to the source of this article: Xinhua
2018-03-09 20:36:43 and Editor: Lifang.
You can read the original article at http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/09/c_137027936.htm
🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏
Palm Springs Guru is pleased and proud to support and work with http://www.helpingrhinos.org
I will make sure to bookmark it and come back to learn extra of your helpful info. Thank you for the post. I will definitely comeback.
ReplyDeletehttp://kellertaxicabservice.com/