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STORY: UN / WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
TRT: 02:09
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV / UNEP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 3 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
1 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Elliot Harris, the Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Office in New York:
“The theme of World Environment Day 2016 is the illegal trade in wildlife. This is a particularly pressing concern, one that does require greater public awareness, public engagement, and public mobilization in the efforts to put an end to this very damaging trade.”
4. Wide shot, dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Elliot Harris, the Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Office in New York:
“The illegal trade in wildlife is booming. It is eroding precious biodiversity, robbing us of our natural heritage, and at the same time, driving several species to the brink of extinction. The trade, the killing, the smuggling that’s involved in it undermines economies and legal systems, it fuels organized crime, and it feeds corruption and insecurity across the globe.”
6. Wide shot, dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Elliot Harris, the Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Office in New York:
“In 2011, one sub-species of the Javan rhino went extint in Vietnam. The last Western black rhino disappeared from Cameroon in the same year. Great apes no longer live in Gambia, Burkina Faso, Benin, and Togo; other countries could quickly follow. Other lesser-known victims include helmeted hornbills and pangolins as well as wild orchids and timbers like Rosewood. Flowers and timber are also considered wildlife and are subject to illegal trade.”
8. Wide shot, end of presser
FILE – UNEP - UNEP - AMBURU NATIONAL RESERVE, RIFT VALLEY PROVINCE, KENYA
9. Various shots elephants in the wild
FILE – 2014 - SAMBURU NATIONAL PARK, KENYA
10. Various shots, poached elephants
FILE – UNEP - 3 MARCH 2015, NAIROBI, KENYA
11. Wide Angle, burning of ivory at the ceremony in Nairobi National Park
12. Close up shot, ivory burning
World Environment Day 2016 will be celebrated this Sunday (5 June), bringing attention to the illegal trade in wildlife. Greater public awareness, public engagement, and public mobilization will be required, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) “in the efforts to put an end to this very damaging trade.”
Elliot Harris, Director of UNEP’s office in New York, told reporters today (3 June) that “the illegal trade in wildlife is booming. It is eroding precious biodiversity, robbing us of our natural heritage, and at the same time, driving several species to the brink of extinction.”
The trade, he said, “undermines economies and legal systems, it fuels organized crime, and it feeds corruption and insecurity across the globe.”
Harris noted that in 2011, “one sub-species of the Javan rhino went extinct in Vietnam. The last Western black rhino disappeared from Cameroon in the same year. Great apes no longer live in Gambia, Burkina Faso, Benin, and Togo; other countries could quickly follow.”
Other lesser-known victims, he said, “include helmeted hornbills and pangolins as well as wild orchids and timbers like Rosewood. Flowers and timber are also considered wildlife and are subject to illegal trade.”
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