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Urge Thailand to Ban the Trade of Ivory

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We did it! Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has pledged to start a legislative process to end ivory trade in Thailand.
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.
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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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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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