Princes Warn Over 'Barbaric' Animal Trade

Prince William and Prince Charles tell a conference that poaching is now "one of the most serious threats to wildlife ever".

随着新兴富裕阶层的扩大和为换取原材料对非洲的大规模投资，及亚洲国家对象牙工艺品需求迅猛增长。导致为获取象牙而非法猎杀大象的行为不断增加。查尔斯王子及威廉王子指责非法野生动物贸易！“没有买卖就没有杀戮”只有所有人放弃使用皮草，才能从根本上消除野生动物贸易的产业链。

Killed for its horn the black rhino is now critically endangered, on the black market rhino horn is worth more than gold, here in T zoo where rhino are kept and bred, conservationists say poaching in parts of Africa and Asia has reached epidemic levels.
There is great demand for rhino horn in places like China and Vietnam, people are becoming wealthy in those countries, as more people can afford the products, in the countries that this is used people believe aphrodisiac properties from helping you join a hangover to cancer, none of these has been proven though.
But this is what is happening every single day, animals are shot, their horns cruelly removed, SKY News filmed this scene in the Kruger national park in South Africa earlier this year, in one case so horrific we have to glare it, a rhino has been maimed while still alive. Like his father Prince William has a keen interest in conservation, as a patron of the charity the Tusk Trust, he's previously travelled to Botswana with Prince Harry, in March he spoke out against illegal trade in wildlife.
We must do more to combat this serious crime if we are to reverse the current alarming trends, if not, we can see cease populations of these creatures or even an entire species disappear from the wild, we simply must not let this catastrophe unfold.
Worryingly this increasing evidence the trade in rhino horn and ivory is being driven by international serious organized crime groups, in some cases terrorists. Today's conference will discuss how to fight that and how to reduce demand across the globe, today delegates from around the world will be encouraged to sign a declaration in the Autumn to commit to ending this cruel trade.
Becky Johnson, SKY News.