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Celebrities join UN campaign to bring animals back from
26.05.2016 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of now, the world-famous celenrities have joined the United Nations in a campaign to bring a range of endangered animals back from the «brink of extinction», UN Radio reports.
As to the report, celebrities are backing what the UN is calling an unprecedented campaign to stop the illegal trade in wildlife, and they have lent their images to the Wild for Life campaign which is based on pictures of the animal they are hoping to save from extinction.
Thus, the Ivorian footballer Yaya Touré is paired with an elephant, model Gisele Bündchen with a sea turtle. The Sri Lankan actress Jacqueline Fernandez is a tiger and US actor Ian Somerhalder a pangolin.
It is to be reminded, each year, thousands of wild animals are illegally killed and traded, often by organized criminal networks.
It’s thought the illegal trade is worth up to US$20 milliard a year. As to the experts, an estimated 170 tons of ivory was illegally exported from Africa in the five years up to 2014; within 2015, poachers on the continent killed over 1,300 rhinos.
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