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Offline Janeyk

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Re: Save Elephants: End International Ivory Trade petition
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2011, 18:32:27 PM »
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Re: Save Elephants: End International Ivory Trade petition
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2011, 08:08:04 AM »
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Re: Save Elephants: End International Ivory Trade petition
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2011, 11:45:14 AM »
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People who buy ivory should have all their teeth removed! (I know it's not exactly the same but I think it's a fitting punishment!)
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Re: Save Elephants: End International Ivory Trade petition
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2011, 09:58:13 AM »
Signed.  Unfortunately, there will always be pressure applied by unscrupulous vested interests to weaken animal welfare legislation (as with the case of ivory), so we must be forever vigilant. 
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Save Elephants: End International Ivory Trade petition
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2011, 10:00:12 AM »
It's been a bloody week for elephants in Chad. Camel-riding poachers killed 22 elephants in just four days and the Chad army was incapable of stopping them.

If we're going to stop poaching we must end demand for ivory around the world. Tell United Kingdom's leaders to permanently ban the international ivory trade ยป http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/168/639/035/?z00m=20001743

Here's the frustrating part: The ivory trade WAS banned 20 years ago. Elephants started to recover. But the ban has been weakened over the years to allow stockpile sell-offs to Japan and China. This has fueled demand, and poaching has increased to meet it. In the southwest part of Chad alone 170 elephants have been killed in the past year.

We can't protect elephants as long as there is a demand for ivory. Legal sell-offs fuel black market trade. In fact, regulators seized illegal ivory on Portugal and India just last week. The only solution is a total ban.
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