Today, the largest black rhino sancutary in East Africa, Ol Pejeta, reported that a black rhino calf and her mother have been killed. At 7.00pm on Thursday 1
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South African park considers rhino evacuation
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s Kruger National Park is considering a plan to move some rhinos out of the flagship wildlife reserve in an attempt to protect them from poachers.
Source: news.yahoo.com
GR: This is not a serious plan. Poachers can reach any park. Poachers represent international invasions into South Africa. National safety and defense are at stake. According to the Defense Ministry, the South African National Defense Force (SANDF) is currently in serious decline. Perhaps a few “advisers” and a few million dollars in aid to the right government agencies would benefit SANDF and encourage a military response.
President Obama: Keep fighting poaching! – Wildlife Conservation Society
President Obama just made an unprecedented move in the fight against illegal wildlife trafficking. In a visit to Tanzania, the President launched a poaching crackdown, dedicating the United States to fighting back against poachers and criminal wildlife traffickers. His new $10 million initiative is devoted to protecting Africa’s iconic species from the threat of the bloody trade in illegal ivory.
We can’t think of a better ally in the fight to save elephants, rhinos, and other species driven to the brink of extinction by the illegal wildlife trade.
Let Obama know that we stand with him – and with elephants. Send your letter of support today!
Source: secure3.convio.net
Please sign the petition.
As Rhinos Die, CITES Hands Out Certificates
CITES is currently meeting again. Discussions on the fate of our rhinos are taking place as you’re reading this.
As poachers kill, and rangers fight, CITES is talking. While the slaughter continues, CITES is handing out certificates.
Looking at the CITES agenda, some of the recommendations on the rhino are as follows:
*Mozambique should develop a national rhino horn action plan, with timeframes and milestones, and submit this to the Secretariat by 8th August 2014.
*Mozambique is requested to submit a comprehensive report on progress in the implementation of its national rhino action plan, and on any other action taken… to be submitted to the Secretariat by 31st January 2015.
*Viet Nam is requested to provide a further comprehensive report on actions taken…including, in particular, by providing an update on the implementation of the Prime Minister’s Directive On strengthening the direction and implementation of measures for controlling and protecting endangered, rare and precious wild animals, and a detailed update on update on arrests, seizures, prosecutions and penalties for offences related to illegal rhinoceros horn possession and trade in Viet Nam…to be submitted to the Secretariat by 31st January 2015.
And what happens if they don’t receive these reports? Or if the reports are showing these countries are failing? Non-compliance will be met with….what?
It is time to enact sanctions against the offending parties. Our wildlife deserves better than “talk”. It is time for action, swift and decisive action. There isn’t time for anything else.
Please sign: Lobby CITES to list the SA Southern White Rhino in Appendix one
CITES-Don’t legalize the sale of rhino horns worldwide
Petition to Ban U. S. Ivory Sales
The United States is one of the largest markets in the world for ivory sales – and it’s killing elephants. There’s a complex and confusing set of laws that criminal networks can easily manipulate to sell ivory from the African elephants who are being slaughtered in droves right now.
Tell the Obama Administration: Lead the global charge to ensure a future for elephants. Ban the sale of ivory in the United States.
Obama Urged to Sanction Mozambique Over Elephant, Rhino Poaching
Environmentalists are formally urging President Barack Obama to enact trade sanctions on Mozambique over the country’s alleged chronic facilitation of elephant and rhinoceros poaching through broad swathes of southern Africa.
Source: allafrica.com
GR: Maybe we should just stick to our war on terra. Wildlife poaching and trafficking look too complicated for the Pentagon.
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Smuggled elephant ivory price triples
The price of ivory taken from African elephants slaughtered for their tusks has tripled in the past four years in China, the world’s biggest market, conservationists said on Thursday.
Source: phys.org
GR: Are the people of the world going to allow simple materialistic urges to wipe out such magnificent creatures? International negotiations have failed. What’s next? Must the nation homes of the elephant declare war on China and other countries that will not take action to protect elephants? Of course, those nation homes can’t even outlaw ivory, and if China did ban imports, the price would simply explode. Can it truly be that each grinning, clapping little character gloating over his piece of ivory has absolutely no concern for elephants?
More posts on poaching:
- Reading, Writing, and Anti-Poaching
- Rhino Poaching in South Africa
- Nigerian Kidnapping, the Link to Poaching
- African Governments May be Involved in Poaching
WildLeaks – Wildlife Crime Stories
Wildlife and Forest Crimes can be better understood in their complexity and disastrous effects through stories and case studies.
Source: wildleaks.org
Wildleaks gives whistleblowers and witnesses of wildlife crime a secure place to report their evidence.
Kenya at the crossroads: it’s time to root out the elites who control wildlife crime
The photographs show some gigantic tusks, undoubtedly from Kenya’s greatest tuskers. One enormous tusk in particular stood out; it can surely be linked to an individual elephant.
These can only have come from killing fields in Kenya’s flagship National Parks, like Tsavo, Marsabit, Samburu and Masai Mara.The last refuges for these magnificent animals are no longer safe havens, and are under siege by increasingly well-armed and equipped poachers.
Recent TV reports in Kenya have exposed the sophisticated organization of the poaching gangs, whose leaders are well-connected to Kenya’s ruling elite. In many cases their identities are known, but nobody dares to name them.
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