With good planning, Africa can have cities, farms, factories, export processing zones. But if the political will is … - Patrick Bergin

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With good planning, Africa can have cities, farms, factories, export processing zones. But if the political will is there, the huge areas - the Serengeti, the Okavango, the Kalahari, Kruger - these wonderful, huge places for wildlife could still be set aside and protected, and be treasures for humanity for many generations to come.

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These magnificent species of Africa - elephants, rhino, lions, leopards, cheetah, the great apes (Africa has four of the world's five great apes) - this is a treasure for all humanity, and they are not for sale. They are not for trade. They need to be valued and preserved by humanity. We all need a global commitment to that.

Africa, Commitment, Elephants, Leopards, Magnificent, Rhinos

We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant for a bracelet. " We became sensitized in our society. Now there are four or five billion people in Asia who need to get this message. We need to use social media, print magazines, celebrities - anything we can to share this message. It's not cool, it's not okay. You are destroying beautiful animals. You are robbing a continent of its wealth. And you are hurting a lot of innocent people.

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In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still.

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There's no space for wildlife; the humans are crowding them out.

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A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.

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