Statement by Ibrahim Thiaw at the London Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade 2014

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Statement by Ibrahim Thiaw, UN Assistant-Secretary-General and UNEP Deputy Executive Director at the London Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade 2014
    
United Nations Environment Programme
February 13, 2014

Your Excellencies,

Colleagues,

Ladies and gentlemen,

Over 30 years ago, the mighty African elephant went extinct in my homeland Mauritania, where it once roamed.