Help Stop The Wanton Slaughter of Elephants – Sign A Petition to the Canadian Government Here!

For the Sake of What Are Left of the World’s Elephants, Please Read On and Consider Signing the Petition Below

A Call-Out from Elephanatics, an elephant advocacy organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada!

Posted March 15^th, 2018 on Niagara At Large

Thousands are urging the Canadian government to protect the world’s declining elephant population by banning the sale of ivory in Canada. If you want action, sign the petition today

Will we be the generation that lets elephants become extinct?

A shocking 20,000 elephants are killed every year for their ivory. Scientists and conservationists agree that at this rate, both African and Asian elephants will be extinct in the wild within our lifetime.

Ivory is so valuable on the black market that organized terrorism syndicates such as the Lord’s Resistance Army are committing mass slaughter using helicopters and AK-47 rifles. In 1980 Africa had more than 1.3 million elephants – today it has approximately 415,000. In less than 40 years, 70% of our elephants have disappeared.

In 1989, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) made it illegal to sell elephant ivory internationally. But each country makes its own laws regarding the sale of ivory within their borders. When domestic trade is allowed it permits illegal ivory (poached after 1989) to be sold along with legal ivory because it’s difficult to differentiate between old and new ivory without extensive and costly testing. The only way to protect elephants from extinction is to ban ALL elephant ivory trade.

At the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress, Canada was 1 of only 4 countries to oppose the closure of domestic ivory markets across the globe. At the 2016 CITES conference, Canada voted against placing all elephants in Appendix I – the highest protection level. Sadly, the higher protection was not granted.

The US banned practically all domestic ivory trade in June 2016. China shut down its domestic ivory trade at the end of 2017. The UK solicited feedback on a proposed domestic ivory ban and 85% supported the ban. If China and the United States – the two largest consumers of ivory in the world – can stop their domestic trade, why can’t Canada?

We feel new legislation can protect both elephants and the indigenous trade of narwhal and walrus. We ask the government of Canada to:

• 1.  Ban all domestic trade of elephant ivory; and
• 2.  Make the import, export and re-export of all elephant ivory illegal.

Let’s make Canada one of the many countries changing their laws to allow the survival of the world’s largest mammal before it’s too late.

Sincerely,
Fran Duthie
President, Elephanatics
www.elephanatics.org

Click on the following to sign –

Petitioning Catherine McKenna, Dr Stephen Lucas

You Can Make History – Ban the Sale of Elephant Ivory in Canada – #ivoryfreecanada

About Elephanatics – Elephanatics was formed in May 2013. We are an elephant advocacy organization residing in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada!

Our mission is to assist global elephant conservation efforts by educating Canadians about issues of ivory poaching, habitat loss, and the continued exploitation of elephants by humans, and to connect Canadians directly with elephant conservation partners in Africa and Asia.

For more information about the organization, click on – https://elephanatics.org/about/ .

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