Obama gets tough on wildlife trafficking

The heat is on the power brokers of the world to step up and start taking some serious measures to bring an end to the horrific trade in wild animals and poaching. It's about time tough measures were put in place to protect the animals in Africa from the relentless exploitation threatening to send them to the brink of extinction. In the wake of the awful death of Cecil many new measures are being put in place to do more to save elephants, rhino and lions.  Poaching wildlife is in my opinion one of the biggest issues facing humanity and must be brought under control before some of these threatened species numbers are so decimated the populations aren't viable. To consider that an elephant is poached for it's ivory every 15 minutes is a truly horrifying statistic and explains why their numbers have plummeted from hundreds of thousands to perhaps a mere 30,000 - 40,000 animals. It is criminal that this situation has been allowed to flourish for so long, that this trade in ivory funds terrorism which in turn affects all of us threatening our very survival. I don't believe that we can afford to look at it any other way.