Ian Gibson was an elephant hunter until he was trampled by an elephant calf he was stalking. Just desserts.
I'd like to reach through the internets, grab them and set them down in a stampede of elephants.
Source: africahunting.com
Malaysia has the world's highest rate of deforestation. Google Maps has revealed Malaysia had the world's highest rate of forest loss between 2000 and 2012. The country's total forest loss during the period amounted to an area larger than Denmark or 47,278 square kilometers. In total, Malaysia has lost 14.4% of its year 2000 forest cover. Conversely, Malaysia's palm oil plantations grew by 50% or 17,000 square kilometers. Most of the forest loss occurred in Malaysia’s densest forests, those with tree cover exceeding 50%. Wildlife native to Malaysia have suffered as a result, including endangered orangutans, pygmy elephants, rhinos and clouded leopards. The government of Malaysia must take action to save the forests and the wildlife that depend on them.
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.
Source: action.sumofus.org