Monday, June 16, 2014

POACHING OF ELEPHANTS MUST STOP! USE THE ECONOMIC LEVER

WE NEED AN ECONOMIC BAN ON THE IVORY TRADERS


The poaching of African elephants has reached a terrible crescendo.  Thirty thousand of these magnificent, intelligent beasts were slaughtered in Africa in the last year just for their tusks. Their bodies are left to rot.  The ivory is surreptitiously purchased by the newly wealthy classes in Vietnam and China.  Our dollars, euros, and pounds are supporting them in their new found wealth.  We must dissuade them from their madness.  We must stop this crazy ignorant slaughter which will exterminate these wonderful creatures within a decade.

I am proposing a world ban on products from those countries found to be trafficking in ivory.  The economic button is the only way and the best way to get the attention of the leaders of those countries who have the means to stop the illegal trade but turn a blind eye to the activities of their wealthy countrymen and women. They must actively stop ivory imports and sales.  It's illegal already you say.  But the legal constraint is not effective.

When massive numbers of people around the world agree to turn away from manufactured products or other goods of those countries which ignore and flaunt the ivory laws...their leaders will wake up and begin the necessary and effective crack down.

Let's do it !

Send emails, texts, twitters...Stop the elephant slaughter!