Wednesday, 10 March 2010

miriam_e: from my drawing MoonGirl (Default)
Elephants are highly intelligent and are one of the few animals that can recognise themselves in a mirror. They are social animals who experience great anguish when a member of their group is hurt or dies, they are known to make art, music, show compassion, and look after one another's young. Their long lifespan (they can live to more than 80 years) gives them extremely low birth rates and makes them very prone to extinction. In the wild, adult elephants have no natural enemies, except humans. We were wiping them off the face of the Earth until the international ban on ivory dried up most of the profit in killing them. Now Tanzania and Zambia want to lift the ban on ivory sales, which will open the channels for poachers again, even in countries that keep the ban.

Keep the ban on ivory.

We have a rapidly closing window of 3 days to make public opinion heard here.

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/no_more_bloody_ivory_gg/

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