"Senator Graham and I have worked to increase and sustain funding through this subcommittee over many years."
"This legislation would fund new public-private partnerships for the long-term management of protected and conserved areas."
"The proposed bipartisan bill, introduced by Senator Coons and Senator Graham, offers all three."
"The fortress model of conservation has demonstrably failed, and we need a human-centered and indigenously informed model."
"In discussing this with Senator Graham, and with others on this Committee, they have often cited the MCC as an example."
"I couldn't agree more with your three central points."
"Thank you, Senator Schatz."
"The law that Senator Flake and I worked on in 2016, the End Wildlife Trafficking Act, authorized the Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking."
"I couldn't agree with you more. That the core challenges today, the vast majority of the population looks at a chicken, and says: I see value, I can sell eggs, I can eat the chicken, I can sell the ch..."
"We, really, have parks that are managed by and for Africans is so critical."
"A lot of this happens in very difficult, unstable locations, Eastern DRC, for example, is a difficult place in which to conduct counter-poaching activities."
"In terms of implementers of that law enforcement training, that is a key piece of countering poaching, and ending wildlife trafficking."