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Urge Thailand to Ban the Trade of Ivory
Ending ivory trade in Thailand – currently the world’s largest unregulated ivory market – will go a long way in stemming a global poaching crisis that is leading to the slaughter of tens of thousands of elephants each year and fuelling a global criminal trade in animal parts. Thanks for your dedication and action to ban ivory trade in Thailand.
To: Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra
I am greatly concerned about the record levels of elephant poaching in Africa. Demand for illegal ivory products could drive the species to extinction in Africa, and Thailand's elephants could be next. I urge you to ban all ivory trade in Thailand to help save them.
This petition closed on March 31, 2013.
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Help spread the word about this video.Every day across Africa, wild elephants are being slaughtered to meet the insatiable demand for ivory. Entire herds are being poached out of existence to supply the illegal trade of ivory carvings and trinkets in Asia.
The scale of illicit activity is staggering in places like Thailand. Poachers and organized crime syndicates there are making millions of dollars a year, turning this Southeast Asian nation into the largest unregulated ivory market in the world.
Exploiting a legal loophole that permits the sale of ivory from Thailand's domestic elephants, criminals can pass off illegally obtained African ivory as being from domestic sources and get away with selling it on the legal open market. This must stop.
Tell Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra she can help save the world's elephants by banning the Thai ivory trade.
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If animals get the same illnesses as we how the hell can they cure these with thier body parts..all cures come from plants this is a true fact..money drives people to be idiots of greed.
Teach conservation in school damit not lieing cheating politics. Start at home with compassion.
Signed. We have a piano with ivory keys. We would never purchase ivory but it's been in the family for many decades, and has been passed down from our great grandmother. It is a horrible, archaic trade that NEEDS to stop, but I will continue to play on the piano, as to throw it away or sell it would only further diminish the importance of those poor dear creatures who perished in order for it to be created.
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if sb is doing sth wrong and you reprimand them out of superiority, they wont listen. if i told you, you fat american stop being such a arab murderer'' would you listen? you wouldnt even consider my words to be true. who are u to judge them!!! showing in a compassionate manner that they'r wrong works much better.
Ivory looks best on Elephants
I hear that its the growing rich of asia and China that are fueling the demand !
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How is it possible to allow the trade of tusks? This is totally irresponsible.... and tremendously cruel.
I sign. the petitiën , frends your voice will make a difference, pleace
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Thank you all Bert Lether !
Thank You Amen Singh !
Anyone caught poaching elephants for ivory should be sentenced to a 20 year jail term. These are beautiful majestic and extremely intelligent animals and only despicable people would hunt them.
IVORY SHOULD BE KEPT ON LIVING ELEPHANTS. IT DOESn't BELONG TO US HUMANS. WE HAVE TO RIGHT WHAT SO EVER TO TAKE IT AWAY AND KILL THE ELEPHANTS. THEY ARE WONDERFUL CREATURES.
Signed. We have a piano with ivory keys. We would never purchase ivory but it's been in the family for many decades, and has been passed down from our great grandmother. It is a horrible, archaic trade that NEEDS to stop, but I will continue to play on the piano, as to throw it away or sell it would only further diminish the importance of those poor dear creatures who perished in order for it to be created.
I don't mean to detract from this grave issue but this is a similar issue I'd like to bring to your attention; I hope you support it. Thank you <3 http://www.causes.com/actions/1736270-petition-stop-the-torture-slaughter-of-animals-for-fashion
Bastards!
Horrible and dispicable....hopefully this can be irradicated once and for all world wide!
Very important issue; signed!
I work with our local Human Society in a county where is now legal to shoot any cat without a collar! I see daily the cruelty humans can inflict on domesticated animas and they certainly don't give a rip about these amazing creatures. Hey humans don't care about humans!