THE IVORY TRADE: Google has blood on its hands 1OKT13 & SHIRLEY AND JENNY REUNION VIDEO

IT is amazing and disgusting that google, with all it's profits and it's prominence in the tech and internet worlds, still lowers it's corporate morals to the extent that it traffics in products from endangered species, it still traffics in ivory from elephants. This is the company, the corporate giant whose motto Do No Harm is becoming more of a joke than a definition of their corporate practices, first with their joining alec last week and now this expose of their profiting from trade in endangered species products. Join SumOfUs in demanding google stop this part of their business now, click the link. And see my earlier post Poachers Decimate Tanzania's Elephant Herds &In A Tanzanian Village, Elephant Poachers Thrive 25OCT12 http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/poachers-decimate-tanzanias-elephant.html and the amazing story of two elephants, Jenny and Shirley, at the Elephant Sanctuary http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-have-been-thinking-lot-about.html 

Uploaded on Sep 19, 2011

Not a new story but worth watching again and again! So amazingly touching - the story of Shirley and Jenny, two crippled elephants reunited at The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee after a 22-year separation. The bonding was immediate, intense and unforgettable between the two former circus elephants. But long after the cameras were turned off, the wondrous moments would continue...

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Google sells ivory through its site, threatening elephants with extinction. Tell Google to adhere to its own policies and stop trafficking in ivory.

The ivory trade is slaughtering elephants by the hundreds in horrific massacres that rip apart herds and leave orphaned calves to starve. But despite an official policy against selling products from endangered animals, Google still traffics ivory -- taking money from ivory sellers to promote their products. Google offers thousands of ivory items on its shopping sites around the world. Its lax enforcement of its own policies allows unscrupulous sellers to find easy markets for illegal ivory.Google needs to stop this horrific practice today.

Call on Google to stop trafficking in ivory immediately.

Elephants are some of the most intelligent and social animals on the planet. They develop lifelong friendships, spend years raising their young, mourn their dead and weep at rejection. They’re also at enormous risk: the population of African forest elephants has plummeted 62% in the past decade. We must stop the ivory trade if we wish to save this species.

Studies show that a robust legal trade swells overall demand for ivory, resulting in poaching, more deaths, and increased risk of extinction. Google claims that it “takes down ads as soon as they are detected”, but the ivory trade has been a chronic issue on the website. The same ads appear day after day after day. Google is simply not taking its own role in the ivory trade seriously.

Google is only paying lip service to the idea of stamping it out, because Google doesn’t want the world to know that it has blood on its hands. If we, as its customers, can raise enough of an outcry, Google will dedicate itself to eradicating the ivory trade on its own site.

Tell Google to stop with the excuses, and stop selling ivory.

After years of declining elephant populations, the global ban on new ivory in 1989 caused elephant populations to surge back. But the short reprieve has ended, and in many countries elephant populations are once more dropping drastically. We need to end trade in all ivory, including older products, in order to ensure elephants remain here for our grandchildren.

Thanks for all you do,
Claiborne and the team at SumOfUs.org

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More Information:

CCTV: Kenya urges world to impose moratorium on ivory trading to save wildlife 6 September, 2013
The Guardian: Google shopping adverts fuel ivory trade, conservation group warns 5 March, 2013

 

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