{"id":169496,"date":"2025-04-03T17:31:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/is-it-woke-to-care-about-the-environment-how-trumps-cuts-are-dismantling-global-conservation-work-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T17:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:31:35","slug":"is-it-woke-to-care-about-the-environment-how-trumps-cuts-are-dismantling-global-conservation-work-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=169496","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Is it \u201cwoke\u201d to care about the environment?\u2019: how Trump\u2019s cuts are dismantling global conservation work | Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"


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W<\/span>hen the guns finally fell silent in 1992, little was left alive in Gorongosa national park. During the 15 years of Mozambique\u2019s civil war \u2013 in which more than a million people died \u2013 the country\u2019s wildlife also paid a terrible price. Poaching for meat and ivory was so intense that the small surviving elephant population rapidly evolved to lose their tusks<\/a>. Leopards, wild dogs and spotted hyenas had all disappeared. Populations of zebra, buffalo and other herbivores had collapsed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the following years, a huge effort to restore the park took shap<\/a>e. Led by the philanthropist Gregory Carr and Mozambique\u2019s government, it was the start of the park\u2019s journey to becoming one of Africa\u2019s most celebrated wildlife conservation success stories. Today, elephants, lions, hippos, antelope, painted wolves, hyenas and leopards all thrive in the park once again \u2013 thanks to work that for the past 20 years has been supported by a long-term partnership with USAID<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Sinchi Roca\u2019s forest control and surveillance in Peru is funded by USAID.<\/span> Photograph: Jason Houston\/USAID<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But now, Gorongosa is among hundreds of conservation projects around the world thrown into uncertainty by Donald Trump\u2019s budget cuts<\/a> to USAID and other branches of the American government. Experts warn the cuts could cause a global surge in wildlife trafficking and poaching, as support for schemes protecting critically endangered species has ended.<\/p>\n