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i'm jessica dean in washington, d.c. in today for fredicka whitfield. a major move by the memphis police department. less than 24 hours after the release of the video showing the brutal building of tyre nichols, the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit will be disbanded. this move coming after nichols' family and protesters around the country demanded the unit be dissolved. cnn's isabelle rosales has more on these developments. what are you learning? >> reporter: the police chief cerelyn davis, in a statement she put out, talking about how it was disbanded, she touted the quality work of this unit....

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Press Release: Saving Wildlife through Multilateral Cooperation in Africa 20 December 2023: The impact of wildlife and forest crime across the African continent is significant and far-reaching. It degrades vulnerable ecosystems already fragilized by over-exploitation and rapid urbanization as well as weakens criminal justice systems. Organized criminal networks benefit from a lack of coordinated and harmonized response and exploit loopholes to engage in wildlife trafficking and illegal logging. The transnational and constantly evolving nature of wildlife and forest criminal networks must be di...

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Nigeria is one of the top biodiversity hotspots in the world. However, over the past few decades, this plethora of  biodiversity has come under significant threat amid a rapidly growing population. Within a decade, Nigeria’s population rose from 161 million in 2010 to 208.3 million in 2020. This has further mounted substantial pressure on the […]