In an unprecedented demonstration of global commitment to combat the illegal wildlife trade, the financial intelligence units (FIUs) of

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States became the first countries to
announce their support for international collaboration to detect and prevent the financial activity that sustains wildlife crime, through
the Statement of Principles for a Multilateral Approach to Combating Illegal Wildlife Trade. The world-first proclamation, convened
by United for Wildlife, was unveiled today at the United for Wildlife Summit at Gardens by the Bay.

United for Wildlife was created by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in 2014 to protect endangered species from the illegal
wildlife trade. Its mission is to foster cross-sector collaboration to make it impossible for traffickers to transport, finance, or profit
from illegal wildlife products.

To combat the trade most effectively, the Principles declare that “the signatory nations and intergovernmental organizations to this
Statement of Principles believe that strong working relationships with foreign counterparts lead to effective and timely information
sharing, open and robust dialogues related to threats and trends, and, where applicable, specific operations, thereby producing better
results in combating the transnational organized crime of IWT.”

The Summit focused on the power of international collaboration to end the illegal wildlife trade, shining a spotlight on success stories
from Southeast Asia and beyond. As both a source and consumer market, as well as a major transport hub, the region is estimated to
account for up to 25% of the global illegal trade. However, Southeast Asia is also at the forefront of tackling wildlife crime, with
Singapore having had several successes in recent years.

The event was hosted by Mariana van Zeller, an award-winning investigative journalist and host of National Geographic’s
documentary series “Trafficked.” She shared the stage with global leaders and representatives from several international organisations
innovating and adapting their work in the collective fight to end the illegal wildlife trade.

Delegates heard a keynote speech from Farwiza Farhan, a passionate forest conservationist working with communities to protect,
conserve and restore the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra, Indonesia. Farwiza highlighted the role of partnership working across sectors
in tackling the illegal wildlife trade, praising the work of United for Wildlife in this space. She followed an earlier session led by
National Geographic Society, featuring Nat Geo explorers who are tackling wildlife trafficking through a variety of different lenses.

The summit also highlighted the formalisation of the partnership between United for Wildlife and INTERPOL, through a Letter of
Intent, pledging to combine their operational expertise and global networks to tackle IWT.

Speakers included Amanda Berry OBE, Chief Executive, The Royal Foundation; Rt Hon. Lord Hague of Richmond and David Fein,
Co-Chairs of United for Wildlife; Raja Kumar, President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF); Dr Sustyo Iriyono, Director of
Environment and Forestry Protection, Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia; Katherine Ford, Associate
Director for the Strategic Operations Division, US Treasury; and Dr. Noviar Andayani, Country Director, Wildlife Conservation
Society in Indonesia.

Since the inception of its international transport and financial taskforces, United for Wildlife has supported over 600 investigations,
nearly 300 seizures of illegal wildlife products, and the training of over 111,000 people to target and tackle wildlife crime.
US and UK see eye to eye to ending illegal wildlife trade

In recent months, the “special relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom has been intensively scrutinized.
Much has been written about fraying in the alliance and alleged personality differences between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and
President Joe Biden.

The visit of Johnson to the White House should dispel these notions.

The increasingly complex geopolitics of the next decade demand that the alliance between the British and American governments,
business communities and non-profit sectors only deepen.

While Washington and London have distinct interests and unique strengths, these should be viewed as complementary.

An existing avenue for partnership that can only grow stronger is combating illegal wildlife trafficking. The kleptocracy, habitat
destruction and transnational criminal activity behind illegal wildlife trafficking is a common threat for both British and American
policymakers.

Fortunately, U.S. and UK law enforcement, private business leaders and non-profit stakeholders are working daily to disrupt
transnational criminal organizations profiting from illegal wildlife trafficking. Alongside illicit shipments of arms and drugs, illegal
wildlife trafficking is incredibly lucrative for transnational criminal organizations. Often run by highly organized criminal networks,
estimates are that the value of the illicit global enterprise is up to $175 billion per year.

While the effects of illegal wildlife trafficking are profound, there are a surprisingly small number of transnational criminal
organizations with the logistical and financial capacity to move illicit goods between continents. Transporting wildlife contraband
involves an identifiable set of bureaucratic activities that leave actionable evidence.

Because of this, beginning five years ago, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, convened executives from the leading British and
American banking and transportation companies. The private sector has often been unwittingly involved with those who traffic illegal
wildlife products — such as ivory, rhino horn and pangolin scales.

The aim of this collaboration has been to examine the entire illegal wildlife trade chain. Combining the full weight of British and
American law enforcement and intelligence perspectives and the unique capabilities of the private sector has been crucial. By forming
transatlantic partnerships with businesses, not only can iconic species be saved, but criminal enterprises that also traffic in arms, drugs
and humans can be disrupted.

Further collaboration began this year. Congress passed the American Rescue Plan earlier this year, which devoted an additional $105
million to the annual operating budget of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. This will permit additional Fish and Wildlife
Service professionals to work abroad alongside their British counterparts in areas of particularly acute trafficking.

This sent a clear message that zoonotic disease and the illegal wildlife trade are a national and international security threat.
Furthermore, it solidified that law enforcement — especially the Fish and Wildlife Service — has an important role to play in
preventing future pandemics. Included in the legislation was an appropriation for $45 million tasking the Fish and Wildlife Service
with developing an early detection and rapid response system. This will trigger when wildlife disease outbreaks occur anywhere in the
world. As this system is developed, coordination with British stakeholders will be crucial.

Both the Obama and Trump administrations worked to elevate wildlife trafficking as a serious crime through executive orders and
other policy initiatives. Indeed, President Obama signed into law the Eliminate, Neutralize and Disrupt (END) Wildlife Trafficking
Act, which directs the secretary of State, in consultation with the secretary of the Interior and the secretary of Commerce, to submit to
Congress an annual report identifying countries of particular concern. The Trump administration utilized the Immigration and
Nationality Act to ban travel on immediate family members of those believed to be complicit in illegal wildlife trafficking.

As the Biden and Johnson administrations have pledged to deepen collaboration, together they should build on these recent initiatives.
Working together, this will support new and innovative ways to save iconic species, combat corruption, put criminal kingpins behind
bars and prevent future zoonotic pandemics.

JUST IN CASE

Thank you, Foreign Secretary, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen.

On behalf of President Donald Trump, I would like to express our nation’s sincerest appreciation to Her Majesty’s Government for
hosting this important conference, and for the leadership of the Royal family.

The United States views the poaching and trafficking of protected wildlife as a threat to good governance, a threat to the rule of law,
and a challenge to our stewardship responsibilities for this good earth.

It is the rule of law that forms the foundation for liberty, safety, and prosperity.

Poachers, wildlife smugglers, and black market merchants are operating all over the world. Their criminal acts harm communities,
degrade our institutions, destabilize our environment, and funnel billions of dollars to those who perpetrate evil in our world.

These criminals must and can be stopped. Future generations must not say that the nations of the world sat back or responded with
action that was too little or too late, while great species disappeared forever.

President Trump fully supports strong prosecution of those involved in the illegal wildlife trade, as do I.

Criminal networks engaged in this illegal trade cross borders, transport their illegal goods worldwide too freely, and sell them to the
highest bidder. The only time criminals care about borders is when they hide behind them. It is our job to stop them.

At the Justice Department, we are fighting transnational organized crime, including wildlife trafficking, the value of which is
estimated to exceed $20 billion annually. In some markets, just one kilogram of rhinoceros horn can sell for as much as $70,000.

We are continuing to fight hard to ensure that illicit wildlife products are not sold in America, and we strongly support the actions of
other nations to close their marketplaces too. We cannot allow the illegal extermination of entire populations of species. To the
contrary, we must use our God-given resources and legal institutions to advance and defend the survival, not the annihilation, of
God’s majestic creatures.

So, we are determined to make sure our country is neither a market nor a safe haven for these criminals.

This includes joining together to make it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, for poachers and smugglers in one country to be
immune from prosecution by fleeing to other nations. It cannot be that a person who commits a serious wildlife crime in one country
can simply run to other countries and be safe from law enforcement.

In the United States, we are proud of our longstanding commitment to defend wildlife. The U.S. government made its first major
commitment to the preservation of wildlife almost 120 years ago, with the passage of the Lacey Act, which prohibits the import,
export, and sale of protected wildlife in the U.S. if the law of the foreign nation was violated. Though we have made many advances
since then, the Lacey Act remains among our nation’s most powerful weapons in the fight against the illegal wildlife trade.
Over 100 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt decried the “reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things” and
urged us to see “our duty … to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of [] unborn generations.” To
him, “the movement for the conservation of wildlife … [was] essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.”

Our law enforcement team is determined to honor this heritage. Just two months ago, a New York man pleaded guilty to exporting to
Thailand dozens of packages containing skulls, claws, and parts from African lions, tigers, and other protected species.

The value of his shipments exceeded $150,000. He is now headed to prison.

Also this year, a California resident was sentenced to prison after he was caught selling black rhino horns to an undercover agent
posing as a taxidermist.

Early in my own career as a federal prosecutor, I prosecuted poachers.

There is no doubt that President Trump takes this issue seriously. Within the first month of his presidency, he issued an Executive
Order specifically recognizing wildlife trafficking as a dangerous form of transnational organized crime, together with drug and gun
trafficking.

He directed the U.S. to use all the tools at our disposal to disrupt and dismantle these despicable organizations.

The U.S. Government is committed to the fight to end wildlife trafficking – an effort that currently involves 17 departments and
agencies that make up the President’s Task Force on Combating Wildlife Trafficking. I am proud to say that all three co-chairs of the
President’s task force – the Interior Department, the Justice Department, and the State Department – are represented here at this
conference.

Since our nations gathered in London in 2014, the United States has dedicated more than $370 million specifically to combating
wildlife trafficking.

In 2016, the U.S. Congress passed the END Wildlife Trafficking Act to further strengthen coordination among federal agencies.

Today, U.S. agencies have devoted resources to address every dimension of this problem, from strengthening enforcement by training
rangers, investigators, and prosecutors; to improving practices and capabilities at ports; to efforts to reduce demand for wildlife
products; and to supporting other conservation efforts.

The U.S. led the world in imposing a near-total nationwide ivory ban, and we have been pleased to see other nations imposing their
own bans. We hope that more will follow.

Many countries have declared wildlife trafficking a “serious crime” and have instituted stronger penalties. We encourage more
countries to do so.

But we still have a very long way to go.

The United States will fund more than $90 million in counter-wildlife trafficking programs and projects in the coming year.

We will continue our efforts to disrupt these criminal networks, and we look forward to partnering with others.

We will redouble our efforts to root out the corruption that protects wildlife trafficking.

We will work to cut off the flow of the illicit proceeds of wildlife trafficking, including through the work of multilateral organizations
such as the Financial Action Task Force Global Network.

For their part, U.S. intelligence agencies are enhancing capabilities to gather, share, and leverage intelligence about wildlife
traffickers.

The Department of the Interior, led by Secretary Ryan Zinke, will continue strategically placing Senior Fish and Wildlife Service
Special Agent Law Enforcement Attachés at American Embassies, increasing the current number from 7 to as many as 12.

These highly trained and experienced criminal investigators will be on the front line, working with our foreign partners to fight
wildlife trafficking in source, transit, and destination regions of the world.

We are tackling this problem head-on in our trade agreements. Just last week, the United States, Mexico and Canada announced a
new trade agreement to replace NAFTA—the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. That agreement includes the strongest provisions to
combat wildlife trafficking of any trade agreement in history.
In addition, with funding from the State Department, the Department of Justice’s overseas training and capacity building offices will
continue to make wildlife trafficking a priority.

For example, we recently placed an expert Justice Department prosecutor as a Resident Legal Advisor in Laos to enhance the capacity
of Southeast Asian countries to combat illegal wildlife trafficking.

Later this month, I am personally convening at the Department of Justice an expert forum to focus on countering the illegal wildlife
trade.

We will continue to engage the private sector, especially the technology sector, to reduce online/cyber sales of illicit wildlife.

And with the transportation sector to stop the illegal shipment of illicit wildlife.

We will seek to change consumer behavior at home and abroad about illegal wildlife products, to seize proceeds of illegal wildlife
trafficking. And to use our diplomatic outreach to foster greater international cooperation in this arena.

Again, on behalf of the United States, I extend appreciation to Her Majesty’s Government and the Prime Minister, Theresa May, and
the Royal Family. This international gathering is a fabulous opportunity to learn what the nations of the world are doing to solve this
vexing problem, to learn from each other, and to re-affirm our commitment to battle the illegal wildlife trade vigorously. Our nation
sees ending the poaching and trafficking of protected wildlife as a worldwide conservation imperative.

The United States, under the strong leadership of President Trump, is proud to join in this noble and worthy cause.

Thank you.