Lets kill them all. The same idiots that feel it is okay to see a whale in a cement tub at Marineland won’t care anyway.
(A Brief Foreward to this post by NAL publisher Doug Draper – This one is about asking ourselves this. What kind of a speices are we humans? Do we not give a shit about any ther species on the planet? Is it all about us? If it is we are dead too, and we deserve to be! DAMN US IF WE DON’T SCREAM TO OUR GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD TO SAVE ELEPHANTS. If we can’t even bring ourselves to stand up to save these magnificent fellow travellers on this planet, then God Damn us for sure.)
Just shot one of the world’s largest elephants, Satao, then hacked his 100 pound tusks out of his face with a machete.
At the current rate of killing, elephants may be extinct in 15 years, but this week if we act now we have an amazing chance to crack down on the illegal trade that fuels the slaughter.
Each day, 50 regal elephants are butchered just to make dinky ivory trinkets! The main culprit for this carnage is Thailand — the fastest growing market for unregulated ivory. And tomorrow the international body created to protect endangered species has a chance to sanction Thailand until it cracks down on the elephant killers.
Experts fear Thai leaders are mounting a propaganda campaign to dodge penalties, but it just takes Europe and the US to ignore their noise and spearhead action to end the slaughter.
Let’s give key European delegates, and the US, the global call they need to tune out Thailand and bravely lead the world to save the elephants. A final decision could be made tomorrow, so we have no time to lose — sign the petition, then send a message to the EU Environment Commissioner:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/hours_to_save_elephants/?bRUUpdb&v=41982
20,000 African elephants are killed every year, and the number of ivory products on sale in Bangkok trebled in the last twelve months. Government representatives to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) have the responsibility to keep the world’s rarest plants and animals alive, and when sanctions were applied to Thailand twenty years ago, it forced the country to pass critical wildlife protection laws.
Thailand says it’s hard to distinguish legal ivory from Thai elephants from smuggled African ivory, and that it has adopted an action plan to stop the ivory trade. But 20 years of delays and a recent military coup tell a different story. If we reach out to the ministers who set the position, we can get the votes needed to prevent Thailand exporting items like aquarium fish and exotic flowers.
Right now CITES representatives are considering whether to sanction Thailand for its failure to stem the ivory trade. Let’s make a call directly to key delegates and the EU Environment Commissioner now to ensure they make the right decision. Add your voice, then share widely:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/hours_to_save_elephants/?bRUUpdb&v=41982
Last year, the Avaaz community helped force Thailand to agree to ban the domestic ivory trade. But Thailand’s new military government has done little to show it will fulfil this promise or restrict this bloody business. Let’s show the strength of our community by issuing an enormous call to protect the lives of one of the world’s most precious species.
With hope,
Alex, Danny, Alice, Nick, Lisa, Emma and the rest of the Avaaz team
MORE INFORMATION:
World famous elephant ‘Satao’ killed by poachers in Kenya (Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2014/06/15/world-famous-elephant-satao-killed-by-poachers-in-kenya/
The ivory highway (Men’s Journal)
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/the-ivory-highway-20140213
Legal reform must shut down Thailand’s ivory trade (WWF)
http://wwf.panda.org/?209665/Legal-reform-must-shut-down-Thailands-ivory-trade
Elephant population too small to supply huge local ivory market (Bangkok Post)
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/418534/thai-elephant-population-too-small-to-supply-huge-local-ivory-market
Major increase in Thai ivory market shows need for action at wildlife trade meeting (World Wildlife Fund)
http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?224690/Major-increase-in-Thai-ivory-market-shows-need-for-action-at-wildlife-trade-meeting
For more information on Avaaz click on http://www.avaaz.org/en/about.php .
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Niagara At Large 
Now there’s an issue. Capitalistic extremism is fueling the dastardly deeds of poachers. The elephant herds are drastically reduced and should be better protected. Between the elephants and the rhinos, there is a big threat to nature by those mindless pursuers of tusks and horns, for the ivory trade and the production of aphrodisiacs for the greedy fat perverts who frequent these countries like Thailand. I may be an idiot, but I don’t see a comparative threat to the killer shark populace by having a few of them in captivity. Elephants are in zoos also, and that might be one more efficient way of protecting them and perpetuating the species, although it is not in the most preferred, natural sense. Unfortunately, mankind has not been sufficiently tamed or penalized to take this issue seriously, and remains easily the most deadly species on the planet.
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I suggest googling the story of the illustrious teenaged Texas girl who bagged her first of the big African game animals at 14. She covered her facebook page with photos of herself with dead leopards, elephants, hippos, lions, etc. She is holding her killing machine & smiling like a chimp ready to fling poop. Her name is Kendall Jones & she deserves to be shamed worldwide as do the nations that allow hunting. The outrage against her has been enormous as it should be. I think she should be released on the Savannah with a pointy stick. THAT would wipe the smirk off her little cheerleader face. A psychopath of the future. Her parents obviously fostered this attitude & paid for her little fun vacations!
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Go to –
Care2 causes – July 5/14 – “Texas cheerleader plasters Facebook with shots of her dead animals.”
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