‘Is it “woke” to care about the environment?’: how Trump’s cuts are dismantling global conservation work

‘Is it “woke” to care about the environment?’: how Trump’s cuts are dismantling global conservation work

By Patrick Greenfield - The Guardian Hundreds of projects supported by USAID have been thrown into doubt, as fears grow of an increase in crimes such as poaching and trafficking. When the guns finally fell silent in 1992, little was left alive in Gorongosa national park. During the 15 years of Mozambique’s civil war – in which more than a million people died – the country’s wildlife also paid a terrible price. Poaching for meat and ivory was so …