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How Tech Companies are Helping to Curb Wildlife Trafficking
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How Tech Companies are Helping to Curb Wildlife Trafficking

Knowledge at Wharton·@HashtagPLUS·about 1 month ago
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Google and the World Wildlife Fund last week brought together 21 technology companies to form the  Global Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online . The coalition, which includes eBay, Facebook, Microsoft and Instagram, hopes to reduce wildlife trafficking across online platforms by 80% by 2020. Policing online platforms with technological tools addresses the supply side of the problem, but consumer education is equally important to reduce the demand for products like ivory and rhino horns that end up killing animals, according to experts. It would also help to promote ecotourism and other ways to support the economies of countries like Tanzania and Zimbabwe that depend on the revenue from wildlife trafficking, they said.…

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