The Foreign Service Journal, October 2018

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2018 33 An innovative USAID-supported program invites communities around protected areas to play a critical role. BY LARA RAL L KHETHA: Bringing “Choices” to Help Address Wildlife Trafficking Lara Rall is the communications manager of the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa’s Khetha program, supported by USAID. She began her career in con- servation in 2013 as a communication and outreach specialist for Chemonics International on the USAID Resilience in the Limpopo River Basin (RESILIM) program, based in South Africa. She joined Khetha in January 2018. The author would like to thank the following members of the Khetha program team for their reviews and comments: Michael Murphree, Dr. Jo Shaw, Lindie Botha, Nelisiwe Vundla and Natalia Banasiak. Photos courtesy of WWF. ON COMBATING TRANSNATIONAL CRIME FOCUS W ildlife trafficking is one of the most profitable areas of the global black market and one that is becom- ing more entrenched in transnational organized crime syndicates operat- ing locally, nationally and internationally. The