03/16/2011
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"This is a multimillion dollar criminal enterprise. The ivory trade stretches from the African savannah to the Asian marketplace."
"We need to take further coordinating efforts both internationally, regionally, and at the national level."
"How shockingly destructive and historically shameful it would be if we did nothing while a great species was criminally slaughtered into extinction."
"History reminds us that we never have the right to turn our backs on the values that define us."