How Free Trade Might Save the Rhinoceros

摘要

Is it possible that Michael Froman can succeed where both Leonardo DiCaprio and David Beckham have not? Maybe-if the job is saving the rhinoceros, whose population has dwindled to about 29,000 as poaching reaches record highs in countries such as South Africa. One rhinoceros is killed in South Africa every eight hours. The only male northern white rhino in the wild is under 24-hour armed guard in Kenya. As U.S. trade representative, Froman is the chief negotiator of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a wide-ranging trade deal among the U.S. and 11 other nations that's expected to be completed this year. The benefits of the agreement will redound to the global economy, but they also extend to the rhino, the elephant, and other species vulnerable to poaching.