PROTECTING THE ELEPHANTS IS NOT A SENTIMENTAL WISH, But an Social, Economical,and Environmental Responsibility!
DEMAND GOVERNMENTS OF ALL NATION'S STOP THE TRADE OF IVORY!
***13,000 People have been KILLED IN DUTY the last 8 Years protecting Wild Life
***Protecting these animals is NOT A SENTIMENTAL WISH but an ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE***As of 2012, the last three years have seen the greatest volume of Ivory Seizures in a quarter of a century***Scientific Data PROVES, THAT CURRENT LEVELS OF POACHING ARE UNSUSTAINABLE ***97% of Rhinos have killed for their HORNS - the remaining Rhino have been Captured and placed in Protective Custody thru Rhino Trans location
***Evidence has shown that Terrorist Organizations in countries like Somalia use illegal Ivory to Fund Operations***70% Percent of the people in China, the World's largest Ivory Consumer, believe that Elephant Tusks fallout with no harm being done to the Animals
----QUOTE : National Geographic----October 4, 2013
"Lose the elephant and you lose a firmament in the imagination of childhood. Lose the elephant and an entire foundation in the moral standing of civilization crumbles. All our human constructs and artifacts would pale before the loss of these titans. With the last elephants still marching on African soil, we may still have reason to walk toward the absolute horizon. The march this October is not only to salvage the elephant, but to salvage what is left of humanity's humanity. It is a march for sanity. Without the elephants, we become ontological cripples for the rest of our earthly stay. The elephant's future is our fate and responsibility. Without elephants we won't have a leg to stand on. Civilization will stand or fall on the back of the African elephant."
-----NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC----
The march is a plea for sanity, a prayer for continuity, for I believe that when the tide is reversed and the ivory trade is finally eradicated, we will have landed on a new planet and humanity will have taken a step back from its own oblivion. If we do not reverse course, the loss of the elephant will have played a critical role in the fall of the human empire. There will be no turning back.
***There are the realities of climate change too titanic to ignore, but the willful eradication of a part of our psyche that sits enthroned like a monument in the mind and soul of humanity cannot be ignored. It was Romain Gary who understood that the elephants were the last individuals. In his masterpiece The Roots of Heaven, he imagined prisoners in concentration camps closing their eyes and thinking of the elephants marching freely in the last open spaces of the world. He imagined them tearing down the barbed wire fences, reinforced concrete, and abject materialism of the camps and stepping over the SS soldiers. For make no mistake, if we were to lose the elephants, the ramifications would be a penal colony on our planet, not just for humanity but for the entire life force. It is why Elie Wiesel told us that to save the elephant "is an urgent moral imperative." The March for the Elephants is also a march for the sea and the rainforests and the frogs and the lions and tigers and bears. It is a march for what makes life ineffable. "A world without elephants is like a world without oxygen."
The upcoming march is a march for sanity. As one Samburu elder once told us, without the elephants and the whales and the other beings of earth, we will lose our minds. If much stiffer penalties, greatly increased jail time and fines for poachers are not enough to reverse course, then consider the curse many tribal people believe is cast on those who kill elephants. They say it is not just another animal, but they are the mind of nature. What we are beholden to is our place on earth before the cybernetic stare overwhelms the biology and life support system of the planet. As some of the largest consumers of ivory, the Chinese must do everything they can to marshal a transformation in the heart of their people for the rhino and elephant, for Chinese children, too, will want to know that these ineffable beings still exist 100 years from now and beyond. The elephant is one of the greatest ballasts we have on terrestrial ground -- ecologically, spiritually, morally and even karmically. Lose the elephant and we execute wonder, for as we learned in Africa, the word pil, elephant in Hebrew, is the root of the verb to wonder.
***"On an entirely manmade earth, there can be no room for man either," wrote Romain Gary. "All that will be left of us are robots Perhaps they are willfully ignorant and choose to ignore the diabolical realities.the Chinese may be finally coming to grips with the grotesque idea that elephants have to have their faces sawed off to get at their teeth.
DEMAND GOVERNMENTS OF ALL NATION'S STOP THE TRADE OF IVORY
**Support the DSWT's iworry campaign and be a part of a global effort to protect and preserve elephants.
