The rising demand for ivory among China's growing middle class has triggered massive amounts of illegal poaching, particularly since 2011. It's now estimated that if this rate of killing continues, elephant populations may never fully recover.
We need to put immediate pressure on China and other ivory-buying countries to do more to protect elephants and prevent the expansion of black markets.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took a major step just days after 41 dead elephants were found in Zimbabwe, pledging to crush 6 million tons of seized "white gold" in an effort to remove it from the illegal market. This is a good start but there's still much more work to be done.
Click HERE to sign the petition now and support elephants worldwide, before this majestic animal goes extinct!
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"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful
lot.
Nothing is going to get
better.
It's not!"
~The Lorax~
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