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.

Theirs is a parallel to our lives, a sense of family and death, loyalties and friendships forged over the years that span a lifetime and a memory that probably far surpasses our own. An emblematic giant that offering respect, proteccion and solidarity support to the members of your herd.