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Showing posts with label African elephants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African elephants. Show all posts
IT is a disgrace that the demand for ivory is what it is. One has to extremely ignorant, greedy and self-centered to believe they have the right to sell and buy ivory. The slaughter of elephants and the trade in ivory, putting an entire species at risk of extinction, must be stopped. We can help by signing the petition from +Us @ SumOfUs to Craigslist CEO demanding they stop the illegal ivory sales on Craigslist. Click the link to sign and remember to share....
The world’s most visible market for illegal ivory isn't underground. It's on Craigslist. Unscrupulous vendors are selling millions and driving elephants into extinction.
Tell Craigslist to get serious about stopping the illegal ivory trade.
Between 2010 and 2012, an elephant was slaughtered every 15 minutes. More than 100,000 elephants were killed to fuel the global illegal ivory trade.
With national and international laws banning the ivory trade worldwide, where can buyers be sure to find it? On Craigslist.
A recent investigation by the International Fund for Animal Welfare
(IFAW) and the Wildlife Conservation Society found that Craigslist users
advertise 6,600 ivory and related wildlife products each year — worth over $15 million. And that study only examined a fraction of the sites -- just 28 of the over 400 Craigslist sites in the U.S.
Craigslist already prohibits the sale of animal parts, but this
investigation proves it is little more than lip service. Feeling the
heat, CEO Jim Buckmaster recently added ivory to the explicitly
prohibited items, even though the company has done nothing to actually
stop ivory sales on its website. Meanwhile, African elephants have been driven nearly to extinction. Tell Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster we want a Craigslist ivory policy with teeth, not tusks. Ban the sale of ivory on Craigslist.
Craigslist vendors use code words like "bone," "scrimshaw" and "faux"
to skirt the complex web of international laws prohibiting the sale of
ivory. The reality is that Craigslist is complicit in a global network of winks and nudges working together to illegally sell ivory -- decimating elephant populations while funding organized crime and terrorism.
The thing is, there is a fix to this -- eBay and Etsy work hard to
eliminate illegal wildlife trade by screening for search terms and other
filtering software. Craigslist is one of the most visible players left
in international ivory trade -- and if it wanted to end the illegal trade of ivory from endangered elephants on its websites, it could do it tomorrow.
We just convinced major airlines across the globe to stop shipping
trophy-hunted endangered animals like Cecil the lion. Let’s make this
another win, and help stop the illegal trade in endangered animals once
and for all. Join us in demanding Craigslist close its illegal ivory loopholes and save the elephants.
Thanks for all you do,
Paul, Ledys, Rosa, Angus, and the rest of the SumOfUs team
SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people
like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their
actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. Please
help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 .
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.htmland 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...
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.
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.
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
SumOfUs is a world-wide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. You can follow us on Twitter, and like us on Facebook.
