Respect wildlife
Stop ivory trade
Stop using wild animals as spectacle
Forty years ago the elephant
population of Africa stood at 3 million. Today less than 250,000 remain with
numbers poised to decline further due to human pressures and especially
due to poaching for their tusks. Experts estimate that 50,000 could disappear
in the next 10 years.
In recent years it has been
revealed that significant criminal syndicates and organized terrorist gangs
have engaged in elephant poaching to acquire ivory, which they sell for arms to
ply their deadly activities helped by the political elites of the majority of
African countries like Tanzania, Sudán, Mozanbique, etc. where the population
of elephants has been exterminated almost totally. These massacres in mass of
elephants have reached levels , with an estimated 35,000 to 50,000 elephants
poached per year.
Market of baby and youngs elephants from South
Africa to Far East
Existe desde hace tiempo un gran Mercado de trafico de elefantes en South
Africa en los que calves, some of which were only two years old, were snatched
from their living families in Botswana and subsequently cruelly brutalised in a
South African so called "training" facility in preparation for sale
to China and the Far East. The demand for young elephants is ongoing, because
mortality is high in these countries where animal
welfare is an alien concept and captive elephants are subjected to untold
cruelty and suffering to use them in degrading
shows for tourists , circus and zoos worldwide, or exploited for hard
labor in forest ). The scale of abuse attached to the live baby elephant trade
was graphically highlighted by what became known as the Tuli Debacle in the
90s.
Majestic animal very similar to the man in feelings
When poachers kill elephants,
they usually kill the whole family as a result of the mother being gone. Every
day elephant calves are found wandering alone in extreme conditions and only a
few are lucky to be located and rescued.
