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BATTLE ZONE RHINO
Start Date: 11/16/2016Start Time: 4:30 PM

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BATTLE ZONE RHINO:
SYNDICATES & AFRICA’S POACHING CRISIS
Kathi Lynn Austin

CITES 2016: ELEPHANTS, LIONS, PANGOLINS
Brian Gaisford

Presentation: Wednesday, November 16, 4:30-6:30 PM
John Jay College
Room 630 Haaren Hall, 899 Tenth Ave @ 59th St

In conjunction with the opening of the President’s Gallery exhibition, ENDANGERED!, Kathi Lynn Austin will discuss Battle Zone Rhino, a special investigative project of the international non-governmental organization the Conflict Awareness Project (CAP). Battle Zone Rhino is CAP’s contribution to the global effort to stop wildlife crime and save Africa’s dwindling rhino population from extinction. Brian Gaisford will report on the recent Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, CITES 2016, his fieldwork, and the dire state of the African elephants, lions and pangolins.

Kathi Lynn Austin is the Founder and Executive Director of the Conflict Awareness Project, and primary investigator on the Battle Zone Rhino exposé and criminal dossier. An internationally - recognized arms trafficking expert, Ms. Austin was named the Arms Control Association’s “Person of the Year” in 2011. She has carried out over 25 years of precedent-setting investigations and served as an arms trafficking expert for the United Nations. conflictawareness.org

Brian Gaisford is the founder of Hemingway Gallery and Hemingway Photographic Safaris combining wildlife conservation work while collecting art in the field. Brian and Hemingway Gallery and Safaris have worked with and raised funds for organizations such as Born Free, Lola Ya Bonobo, Long Shields Lion Guardians, and others. Brian Gaisford is a native South African and “has seen it all from Timbuktu to Cape Town. hemingwayafricangallery.com
This presentation is part of the Fall Environmental Justice Speaker series and co-sponsored by the John Jay College Sustainability and Environmental Justice Program.

sustainabilityjjay.org
endangeredexhibition.blogspot.com
shivagallery.org
BATTLE ZONE RHINO
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(image) Kathi Lynn Austin with confiscated rhino horn and elephant tusks.

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