Cling to hope, cast aside despair.
We can do this folks, we can help our Africa to save her irreplaceable wildlife.
We are beyond boundaries now, and we work together due to the threat of global extinction.
When our family in Africa finds themselves fighting off the hideous onslaught of poaching elephants, rhinos, pangolins, and giraffes for the illicit wildlife trade, we know that we face two wounds with them.
First, we loose the brave souls of rangers who work to stop the wildlife poachers who slaughter elephant and rhinos for tusks and horns.
Every four days average, one beautiful human leaves our planet, trying to protect those animals who are hunted dead for ridiculous human need. Rhino horns don’t cure cancer, a hangover, or make for great sex.
Wildlife crime - the rangers on the front line
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Secondly, we suffer an alteration of environment when so many keystone species have been lost.
Aside from moral loss, how will poaching rhinos into extinction affect our environment?
"The Problem of Poaching" https://theproblemofpoaching.wordpress.com/
We all pay the piper.
No doubt that this is a war against wildlife, but also it is a war against humanity.
Africa loses with economic gains when poachers threaten ecotourism.
Now the poachers turn our applaud of ecotourism and activism concern against us when we share the photographs of our endangered African wildlife and disclose the location, unwittingly, as we wish to promote ecotourism in Africa, as an economic alternative to poaching.
bit.ly/1Cp6R5G
Then we turn to the convoluted notion of trophy hunting an endangered species as conservation.
I promise not to swear here, as this one throws me off the cliff.
This is my country, and I tried to stop this by authoring a petition for the second black rhino trophy hunt import permit. That died on the vine.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/USFWS_Deny_trophy_hunt_import_permit_for_Namibian_black_rhino/?dxAkFfb&pv=5
No matter now, the decision was handed down by Director Dan Ashe for USFWS to go right ahead and green light hunts of Namibian Black Rhinos.
USFWS said it was cool to go ahead and hunt two Grampa Black Rhinos and call it “conservation”.
Kill two members of an endangered species to conserve them? Surreal.
https://www.takepart.com/article/2015/03/26/us-gives-ok-hunter-kill-rhino
Wayne Pacelle, CEO of the @HSUS, thought otherwise, and I can not thank him enough for his eloquent words. I would have said something far more vulgar.
“It is the worst sort of mixed message to give a green light to American trophy hunters to kill rhinos for their heads,” Wayne Pacelle, president of The Humane Society, said in a statement. “When the global community is working so hard to stop people from killing rhinos for their horns, we are giving a stamp of approval to a special class of privileged elite to kill these majestic animals as a head-hunting exercise.”
https://www.takepart.com/article/2015/03/26/us-gives-ok-hunter-kill-rhino
Complicated politics?
You bet, baby.
But worth every moment of concern, every tear of grief.
Our folks in Africa, and our African wildlife Buddies, are counting on us to stop poaching and trophy hunting, so that the next generation of all life will include elephants, all remaining rhino subspecies, big cats, and pangolins.
We can work to Ban Ivory Sales in the USA.
http://wildlifeofafrica.blogspot.com/p/elephants.html
We can work to Ban Ivory Sales in the UK, and contact our Chinese embassies here:
http://www.adinternational.org/conservation/go.php?id=3922&ssi=14
on.fb.me/1IJA7sT
Thank you to Animal Defenders International @AnimalDefenders
We love Africa…… she is Nirvana, and it is our duty to step up, and speak out to protect her.
We stand with you, Africa.
Some of us in the USA are awake and working to make sure you are not alone in the challenge to save your beautiful wildlife from short sighted poachers.
Today, April 8, 2015, held promise.
Souls in New York believe that elephants, black rhinos, white rhinos, lions, and leopards should remain alive in Africa, rather than be dead trophies on a wall. Species on the verge of extinction need our voices, not our silence that will allow their lifeless mounted heads on a trophy hunter’s wall.
http://friendsofanimals.org/news/2015/april/foa-drafts-bill-protect-five-african-species
https://www.newsday.co.zw/2015/04/08/another-blow-for-zim-wildlife-industry/
Thank you to Friends of Animals @FoAorg ,Michael Harris @WildAnimalLaw, Edita Birnkrant @EditaFoANYC for drafting and promoting this bill. Thank you to @TonyAvella @GeorgeLatimer37 for initiating this bill. Joyce Friedman of @HumaneSociety, bless you for endorsing it.
#AfricanBig5Bill
The USA stands for life, not trophy hunting our beloved legacy of wildlife that belongs to our family in Africa
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