GROUP MAKES PLANS TO SAVE AFRICAN WILDLIFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400260016-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 13, 2009
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: April 16, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON 'PO , i b I A
A N D TIES HE R `.i I .
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group Makes Plans to Save J-
. Some imaginative friends of
Africa have banded together
!in Washington in a unique
attempt to save African wild-
life, now threatened with ex
Unction. i
United. States Tax Court
'Judge Russell E. Train heads
the group which plans to raise
money to send African stu-
dents to United States univer-
sities to study conservation.
"We believe that the only
lars an ounce for use as ah dates plan to seiecz,aaunlver-
aphrodisiac in the Orient.
"Giraffe, wildebeest and 90-
bra . are slaughtered In large
pity and hope to place five
1 Sep-
Alirlcane in tb
te~iiber
numbers simply for their taps
to be used as fly swatters ..'.
in Tanganyika alone, it is re-
ported the average weeldy.toll
of game by -poachers substan-
tially exceeds the annual take
by licensed hunters'" - -
Judge Train and his asso-
president, ;Qfl4rp.
and grandson of lhei ate' Pres-
!dent Theodora, Roos,tvelt;
hope, the only chance of ulti-
mate success of any African:
conservation program - a ad
even here the odds are terri-
bly long-lies with Afriean4
themselves and in their ob,
taming the knowledge the Jot
requires," said Judge Train'
who has been to Africa twice,
Seek Financial Support
Organized in the last few
weeks, the African Wildlife.
Leadership 'oundatton, Inc.,:
hopes to ob in financial *up-,,
port throughout the coun,y.
This is not "sentimental non-
servation," Judge Train Odd.
'The wildlife is vital to 4fri-
ca's economy. It brings Ai toUr-
1st dollars and is the most effi-
dent source of meat and pro-
tein available in most of Africa.
The main threats to African
wildlife, aside from 'public
apathy and indifference, the
judge said, are native poaching i,
and the increasing use of land
for domestic cattle raising.
"Native poaching goes on at
a fantastic scale in a great
many areas of-Africa," he said.
"A short time ago some 600 ele-
phants were reported to have
peen killed by native poachers
In one year In Tsavo National
Park of Kenya lone. Meat is
taken for peddling through the
black market in villages and
towns. Elephants are slaugh-
tered solely for their tusks
which an, exported through Il-
legal chtinels to the Asian
.ivory maAet. Rhinoceros are
killed ssMaly for their horns
which af/ sold for several dot=
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