Let Elephants Keep Their Ivory

http://toursandtales.com/ - As usual, elephants were on the agenda at the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP14) - held in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 3 to 15 June 2007.

Be informed - read the debate at http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/html/debate.html

The 55th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee was held on the 2nd of June 2007.

A while back, CITES permitted a once-off trade of stockpiled African ivory, in spite of the ban on African Ivory. The result? An increase in poaching. Because legal trade makes illicit trade easier.

CITES had to consider another "once-off" trade request, so this video was a request to them, and you the public. We need to ensure that children's children can enjoy encountering wildlife in their natural habitats. Forever.

With special thanks for Daphne Sheldrick from the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Read more at http://toursandtales.com/let-elephants-keep-their-ivory

Understand this situation more clearly by reading the debate on the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust website at http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/html/debate.html.

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[marvicbiz]

After days of heated debate, the international body that governs trade in endangered species (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES) on March 24 2010 rejected proposals from Tanzania and Zambia to reduce the endangered status of their elephants and allow each country to hold a one-time sale and export of legal ivory stockpiles.

[marvicbiz]

@marvicbiz continues - AWF believes the decisions to reject the country proposals are in the best interest of Africas elephants, says AWFs Senior Director of Conservation Science, Philip Muruthi, who attended the March CITES meetings, held in Doha, Qatar. Although no causal relationship has been established, there is ample evidence that elephant poaching has increased since such sales were last permitted to move forward."

[azcreater]

my response to this video......STOP IVORY FOR ALLL ANIMAL's beacuse see.... there might be no elephants left in this world! and just let them live dont kill them for money and shit. would u like animals to poach humans?!?!!?!?!?!?!!? no u wouldnt so please stop ivor people i dont give a fuck if your poor and u kill elepahnts for cash, u can do soemthing else for it! i dmeand to stop ivory in all states!

[slvrserfr]

Well I'm glad to hear that eBay has banned ivory from being sold using their auction service in hopes of alleviating this cause, although I'm sure it'll still remain an issue.

[krrrruptidsoless]

@brotherbaldrick

Since when are there too many animals. Humans are never thought of as being overpopulated. Yet they have ruined everything.

How come you limit animals area of life yet scag humans can dwell where ever they please.

Humans suck the life out of life.

And condoning such behavior for the sake of saying humans have a right to kill animals is repulsive. Your kind isn't worth the food it takes to feed an ant for a day.

I say the animals should roam where they please. FYK

[MarvicWebDesign]

As expected the legal sale of ivory has increased poaching in Kenya.

Elephants are being poached by professionals with a business motive to supply the ivory trade.

It's easy to say that South Africa and Botswana have too many, but elsewhere

in Africa elephants are endangered, including Kenya!

We are one world!

As guardians of the planet, we humans need to think further than our back yards (and selfish desires) to see our involvement in (and responsibility for) the big picture.

[ElephantAndSpyroFan]

Then, why did you watch this video???????? >:(

[cartoonfreakk168]

Shame on all of u who think we have no chance of saving these graceful and beautiful animals. ok, so they're pretty much critically endangered but that doesn't mean we can't bring them back!

[AnthonyMarkT]

Nothing justifies the slaughter of these beautiful animals! NOTHING!! We are the sickest species murdering for fun, for trifles, for what?

[iollo]

how the hell are you supposed to save a species that lives in the hellhole that is africa no infrastructure, war, famine and disease, they have alot more to worry about than animals.