Ludicrous, pull out all the stops pro-TPP crap: It will save the Rhino!

[cali]

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-31/the-trans-pacific-partnership-can-save-the-rhino



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The trade deal may be the only way to prevent some species from extinction. Last year, poachers killed 1,215 rhinos in South Africa, home to most rhinos, whose horns are pulverized to make dubious hangover, headache and cancer cures. That's a 9,000 percent increase since 2007. Deaths could exceed births as early as next year; extinction will soon follow. Already, three of the remaining five rhino species are critically endangered.

[djean111]

1. That. Is. Pathetic. nt

[hedda_foil]

2. WTF?

So they're appealing to the sensibilities of environmentalists by floating this bull puckey?

[hifiguy]

3. Wut?

There really is nothing the scumbuckets who support this obscenity will not sink to, is there?

[cali]

4. nothing. absolutely nothing.

[Hoyt]

5. There are numerous benefits in trade agreements that usual suspects ignore. Here's to Rhinos.

[cali]

6. bullshit. predictable bullshit

[Hoyt]

10. I get you don't like foreign countries and workers, didn't realize you don't respect animals.

[cali]

11. I get that you have a disgusting penchant for

putting words in my mouth that I never said or inferred.

Shame on you, hoyty

[arcane1]

7. "a 9,000 percent increase since 2007" I wonder what happened in 2007

[pampango]

8. "The deal would make it far more difficult for other countries to trade in trafficked items such as

elephant tusks and rhino horns. The pact would, for the first time, integrate species conservation with trade access by requiring the 12 countries that sign it to adopt conservation laws, or live up to commitments they've already made yet routinely ignore.

Much of the demand for poached wildlife comes from the same countries negotiating the TPP. Vietnam, for example, is the main source of demand for rhino horn. Malaysia is an important shipping port with a low rate of wildlife-trafficking detection. Under the trade deal, both would have to change their see-no-evil attitude or risk trade sanctions. China is also the source of much demand, and while it won't be a TPP signer, it could join later.

The TPP would also require international law enforcement agencies, customs and border patrol officials, and wildlife inspectors to coordinate more effectively. If an African country informs Vietnam that one of its citizens has paid a poacher for rhino horns, for example, the Vietnamese can't ignore the tip-off.

How can they know these provisions are in an agreement that is not final or public?

[MineralMan]

9. Actually the endangered species trade prohibitions

in the TPP probably will help reduce trade in think horn. Did you read the article before ridiculing the idea?

[cali]

12. love the hypocrisy. you spent fucking months piously

lecturing about how we couldn't make any judgments about the tpp including the leaked chapters because they were subject to change.

You so don't practice what you preach.

Oh, and virtually every environmental organization opposes the tpp based on the leaked environmental chapters, which by your new revised mm standards, must be taken into account.