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Week Of Comms. Correspondence Notes

Sept. 23, 2013 Reach out to Jenna on 9/25 Send update about CGI wildlifetrafficking event on 9/25. Event on 9/26.Ivory crush on 10/7 and 10/8.CNN International’s Expedition Sumatra,premiered 9/13Update sent out on 9/30.

Sept. 30, 2013 Reach out to Jenna on 10/2 Update sent out on 10/7  Huffington Post  piece about

WWF’s “Stop Wildlife Crime”video series’ ranger -focusedvideo.

  Reuters piece about rhino hornpoaching

  Treehugger.com piece aboutrhino poaching, featuring rhinovideo in “Stop Wildlife Crime”series

  Treehugger.com piece abouttiger poaching, featuring the tigervideo in “Stop Wildlife Crime”series

  CNN  op-ed on elephant poaching  The Guardian piece rhino

poaching in South Africa   AFP  piece on Sumatran rhino

sighting in Indonesia  WWF  spotlight on a ranger

working to save tigers in Sumatra

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Oct. 7, 2013 Reach out to Jenna on 10/9 Ask about video equipment for interview,figure out time

Update sent out on 10/14  Huffington Post  piece on the

dangers and prominence of theworldwide ivory trade.

  Washington Post  piece on Kenyaseizing 1,600 pieces of ivory.

   Associated Press piece onVietnam seizing two tons ofsmuggled elephant tusks.

  Public Radio International  piece on the connection between al-Shabab and the illegal ivorytrade.

  Treehugger.com piece on videofootage of the Sumatran rhino inIndonesia.

  Zimbabwe Independent  piece onthe importance of savingelephants.

  Bloomberg.com piece on savingKenya’s elephants usingunmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs).

  WWF  piece on the dangers

facing the Sumatran rhinopopulation and what’s being doneto save them.

  Public Radio International  piece on the dangers facing rangers innational parks.

Oct. 14, 2013 Reach out to Jenna on 10/16 Update sent out on 10/21  WWF-Malaysia and TRAFFIC

Southeast Asia video on thepoaching crisis in Malaysia’s

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rainforests.  Huffington Post  piece on Kenya’s

decision to implant microchipsinto all rhinos to stop poaching.

   Al Jazeera English video of WWF African Species expert, MattLewis, speaking on the rhinopoaching crisis in Africa andKenya’s decision to usemicrochips to combat poaching.

  Daily Nation piece on a gatheringof religious leaders broughttogether by the Kenyan WildlifeService to honor slain parkrangers lost in the poachingcrisis.

Oct. 21, 2013 Reach out to Jenna on 10/23 Update sent out on 10/28Google video interview late OctoberMedia and technology panel with Gov.Richardson

  WWF  release on recognizing theNamibian government with its Giftof the Earth award for Namibia’sconservation efforts andsuccesses.

  Slate piece on increasingly high-

tech efforts used by bothpoachers and conservationgroups. Features Wildlife CrimeTechnology Project Researcher,Matt Lewis.

  WWF  release on Asian countries’decision to protect the snowleopards and their habitats frompoaching and other threats.

  TRAFFIC  piece on making the

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ETIS (Elephant Trade InformationSystem) database available tothe public.

  Richardson Centerannouncement on partnership

with WWF to combat illegalwildlife trafficking. Officialannouncement on Thursday10/31 featuring Wildlife CrimeTechnology Project Lead,Crawford Allan.

  HuffPost Green piece on thedeath of more than 300 elephantsand other animals in Zimbabwe’slargest game park. The animalswere killed by cyanide poisoning.

  Washington Post  piece ondecrease in demand for shark finsoup in China.

  Washington Post  piece on linksto poverty and terrorist groupsand poaching.

  CNN  op-ed by WWF Director ofMedia Relations, Lee Polston, onthe threats facing the endangeredSumatran tiger population.

Oct. 28, 2013 Reach out to Jenna on 10/30 Update sent out on 11/4  Motherboard  piece on a program

in the Republic of Congo thatallows poachers to become parkrangers

  WWF  release on event with TheRichardson Center for GlobalEngagement about integratingtechnology training and methodsinto wildlife protection efforts

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  WWF blog piece on the threatsfacing bats and bat habitats

  Time piece about the out-of-control nature of the ivory trade inChina

  Time piece on the threats facingthe Sumatran tiger species due topalm-oil plantations

  Elephant Action League piece onthe rescheduled U.S. Fish andWildlife Service’s Ivory Crush on11/14

  WWF Global  piece on a delay inthe plan to build an offshore oildrilling platform in endangeredgrey whales’ habitat

Nov. 4, 2013 Reach out to Jenna on 11/6 Update sent out on 11/11  The Epoch Times piece about the

WWF and Richardson Center forGlobal Engagement partnership

  U.S. Department of Justice piece on an Irish national convicted ofcrimes related to illegal traffickingof rhino horn

  The Guardian piece on therescheduled U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Services’ Ivory Crush on11/14 and what the U.S. is doingto address the illegal ivory trade

  Outside Online piece on REI’sdonation of equipment to gameguards in Namibia that work tostop poachers

  WWF  piece on Education forNature grantee Jim Nyamu’sdecision to walk more than 650

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miles in 30 days across Kenya toraise awareness of the illegalivory trade in Eastern Africa

Nov. 11, 2013 Reach out to Jenna on 11/13 Update sent out on 11/18  WWF  release announcing an

online holiday auction withCharitybuzz going on nowthrough Dec. 2, 2013

  WWF  release on the sighting ofthe Saola in Vietnam, one of therarest and most threatenedmammals on the planet.

  WWF  release on President andCEO Carter Roberts’ approval ofthe U.S Fish and WildlifeServices’ Ivory Crush

  NBC News piece on the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Services’ ivoryCrush, the ivory trade in the U.S. and how it relates to poachingand wildlife trafficking.

   Al Jazeera America piece on theIvory Crush and what the U.S.can do to stop wildlife trafficking,poaching and the ivory trade.

  HuffPost Green op-ed from WWFand the International Fund for Animal Welfare on the escalatingpoaching crisis and how tocombat it.

  Christian Science Monitor  piece on the sighting of the Saola inVitenam and what it says aboutVietnamese conservation efforts

   ABC News piece and video on

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the Ivory Crush and poachingcrisis.

  U.S. Dept. of State blog post byJohn Kerry on the ivory crush andwhat Americans need to do to put

an end to poaching.  Denver Post  piece, video and

photo gallery of the ivory crushand U.S. efforts to put an end topoaching.

Nov. 18, 2013 Reach out to Jenna on 11/20 Update sent out on 11/25  Reuters piece on the Leonardo

DiCaprio Foundation’s $3 milliongrant to WWF to protect theendangered tiger population inNepal.

  WW F  release on the LeonardoDiCaprio Foundation’s grant andhow it will help WWF doubleNepal’s tiger population by 2022.

  New York Times piece on thepossibility of rhino deathsoutnumbering rhino births in thecoming years due to poachingsurges.

  Mongabay.com piece on Garuda

Indonesia’s, Indonesia’s nationalairline carrier, decision to ban thetransport of shark fin and othershark products on their aircrafts.

  USA Today  piece on Namibia’scountrywide habitat and speciesconservation efforts and how theycompare to other countries’ in thesurrounding area.

  The Express Tribune piece on

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the safe release of a 12-footwhale shark in Khobar Creek,Pakistan and WWF-Pakistanefforts to help fishermen copesafely release these creatures

that often get tangled in theirnets.

  WWF  blog post on human-polarbear interaction and how this fitsinto the future of polar bearconservation. Includes a shortvideo taken with Google Glass.

  New York Times piece on theState Department’s decision tooffer a $1 million reward forinformation that could helpdismantle the XaysavangNetwork, a major wildlifetrafficking syndicate.

Nov. 25, 2013 Reach out to Jenna on 11/27 Update sent out on 12/2One Today App Collaboration-12/4

  The Guardian piece on thesteadily declining elephantpopulation in Africa due to thepoaching crisis.

  International Business Timespiece on the endangered bonoboape species. The apes are losingtheir habitat due to deforestationand poaching.

  International Union for theConservation of Nature andNatural Resources (IUCN) piece on its latest “Red List”, detailingnewly threatened andendangered species.

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  WWF  statement on the ICUN’slatest “Red List”.

  Scientific American blog post onthe okapi, a recently-namedendangered species threatened

by military conflict in theDemocratic Republic of Congo.

  WWF Magazine piece on WWF’sdevelopment of camera traps togather data about wildlife.

  USA Today  piece on a South African couple’s newdocumentary focusing on the lossof Africa’s lion population due topoaching.

  Harvard Business School  podcast with WWF President &CEO Carter Roberts on how theenvironment and businessesinteract

  WWF  release on new data thatshows that 22,000 elephantswere killed by poachers in Africain 2012

Dec. 2, 2013 Reach out to Jenna on 12/4 Update sent out on 12/9  WWF  release on leaders’

commitment to conserving polarbears and their habitats at theInternational Forum on PolarBear Conservation in Moscow.

  Washington Post  blog piece onthreats facing the Monarchbutterfly species and their winterhabitat.

  Convention on InternationalTrade in Endangered Species of

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Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)release on IUCN data that showsthat Africa will most likely lose afifth of its elephant population inthe next ten years.

  South African Times piece on thearrest and fine of a Chinese manfound with 3.3 pounds worth ofillegal ivory, valued at $320.

  República piece on DNA profilingof Neapl’s tigers as a way ofcombating poaching in thecountry.

  WWF  piece on the U.S. Fish andWildlife Service’s ivory crush andits significance for elephantconservation worldwide.

  WWF Travel Blog  piece on a visitto Peru’s largest reserve.

  HuffPost Green piece on aNational Research Center (NRC)and National Academy ofSciences report on the effects ofclimate change in the comingdecades.

  WW F  statement on the NRC andNational Academy of Sciencesreport.