African Parks Partners With Chad to Combat Elephant Poaching. In a week of wildlife conservation announcements coming out of New York, including CGI’s commitment to spend $80 million fighting elephant poaching, and the merge between Rare and The Nature Conservancy, the nonprofit organization African Parks (AP) added its news to the mix: African Parks is partnering with the government of Chad to launch the first national program to combat elephant poaching in central Africa.
This is no minor undertaking. The country of Chad has been absolutely ravaged by the illegal trade in ivory. At an event this week at The River Club in Manhattan, hosted by African Parks, Chad’s President Idriss Deby Itno said his country “has been struck more openly and severely by this new poaching wave than the other countries in the Sub region.”
According to AP, 50 years ago Chad was teeming with 50,000 elephants; today the number is down to 1,200. African Parks was founded in 2003, and has a distinctive mission within the crowded galaxy of wildlife conservation groups. USQuizMainPAge. AP United States History Course Home Page. AP United States History Course Overview. AP World History. AP U.S. Government. AP European History. AP U.S. History.