{"id":6461,"date":"2023-12-05T20:34:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T02:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2025-01-01T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T02:51:12","slug":"world-leaders-pledge-to-kill-last-black-rhino-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/05\/world-leaders-pledge-to-kill-last-black-rhino-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"World Leaders Pledge to Kill Last Black Rhino by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NEW YORK\u2013 On Monday, World leaders at a United Nations summit vowed to kill the last black rhinoceros by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI can promise you one thing:\u201d UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said following the agreement, \u201cgoing into the next decade, we will not worry about seeing those ugly beasts ever again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The landmark pledge marks the international community\u2019s strongest commitment to achieving its goal of eliminating all black rhinos to date. A loose coalition of governments, business leaders, and connoisseurs of alternative medicine has so far managed to reduce the global black rhino population to roughly six thousand, but extinction has proved elusive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging to see global leadership taking this challenge seriously,\u201d said J\u00f8rg\u0451n J\u00f8rg\u0451n\u0451ns\u0451nn\u0451, a professor of ecology at the University of Copenhagen. \u201cWith that being said, at the current pace, we\u2019re not on track to reach extinction for at least fifteen years, so we\u2019ll have to see if this is accompanied by real, bold action.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The announcement has prompted some pushback from conservation groups. &#8220;We can all agree that black rhinos kind of suck,&#8221; said Adil Najam, President of the World Wide Fund for Nature. &#8220;Like, what&#8217;s with that little horn behind the main one, right? Nonetheless, we believe in respecting even the most contemptible of God&#8217;s creatures, and that is why we implore the UN to push back the extinction deadline to at least 2034.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reached for comment, Mr. Guterres said that following the agreement, the next items on the UN&#8217;s agenda included increasing industrial air pollution and limiting income equality in South Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement has prompted some pushback from conservation groups. &#8220;We can all agree that black rhinos kind of suck,&#8221; said Adil Najam, President of the World Wide Fund for Nature. &#8220;Like, what&#8217;s with that little horn behind the main one, right? Nonetheless, we believe in respecting even the most contemptible of God&#8217;s creatures, and that is why we implore the UN to push back the extinction deadline to at least 2034.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2089,"featured_media":6463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6871,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions\/6871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}