🚀 go-pugleaf

Ten years ago, wild elephants in Africa and Asia were hurtling towards
extinction.  Poachers were killing elephants in record numbers to feed
the international demand for the ivory from elephant's tusks and their
hides.  Elephants in Africa were particularly hard hit, with populations
in many countries nearly destroyed. In 1989, the nations of the world
took action through the Convention on International Trade on Endangered
Species (CITES) to ban the international ivory trade and stop the
wholesale slaughter of the world's elephants.

In 1997, CITES allowed a one-time trade in stockpiled ivory to resume
from some countries.  That experiment resulted in dramatic increases in
poaching, both in the countries involved in the trade and across Africa
and Asia.  This past April in Nairobi, Kenya, the world's nations were
once again asked at CITES to approve a proposal to lift the ban and
allow the ivory trade to resume. In the end, this request was withdrawn,
but the poaching and illegal trade that was sparked by the experimental
ivory sale continues. To bring this poaching under control and to ensure
that it doesn't explode again if the ivory trade resumes, governments
must act now to enforce their laws and build their capacity to combat
elephant poachers now and in the future.

Save the elephants by visiting http://www.helpelephants.org and sending
an e-mail to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  Urge them to support
elephant conservation and work to oppose illegal poaching and future
efforts to resume international trade in ivory.

Sincerely,

Help Elephants Campaign
Defenders of Wildlife



Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.