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Get in touch with your inner elephant

Elephants are being massacred across Africa due to the trade in their ivory and they need your help.

If you feel that only elephants should wear ivory,

If you want to stop the senseless killing,

If you want to stop all forms of trade in ivory,

then let your inner elephant show - take a picture of yourself as an elephant and post it to join us in saying - stop ivory trade!

In 1979 there were an estimated 1.3 million African elephants. A decade later, widespread poaching had reduced that figure by half. Just 600,000 African elephants remained.

Africa’s savannahs and forests were no longer sanctuaries for elephants; they had been turned into graveyards.

In 1989, a worldwide ban on ivory trade was approved by CITES. Levels of poaching fell dramatically, and black market prices of ivory slumped.

But the ban was endangered by greed.

Since 1997, there have been sustained attempts by certain countries to overturn the ban. In 1999, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe were allowed an ‘experimental one-off sale’ of over 49,000kg of ivory to Japan. Then in 2002, a further one off-sale was approved, which finally took place in 2008 – and resulted in 105,000kg of ivory being shipped to China and Japan.

Today, levels of poaching and illegal trade are spiralling out of control once again. In many areas, rates of poaching are now the worst they have been since 1989. In 2009, over 20,000kg of ivory was seized by police and customs authorities worldwide and in 2011, just thirteen of the largest seizures amounted to over 23,000kg.

Countries continue to report localized extinctions of small vulnerable elephant populations and a number of countries are edging closer to losing all their remaining elephants.

We have to stop it before its too late!

The elephants are counting on you!