It's All About The Elephants

Dedicated to ending the ivory trade as elephants are being illegally killed for their tusks at an alarming rate (1 every 15 minutes). Elephants DC is part of the People's Movement to end the ivory trade domestically while advancing anti-poaching and anti-smuggling initiatives around the world.

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the metaphorical elephant (…not the glasses)

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Kenya at the crossroads: it’s time to root out the elites who control wildlife crime

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Kenya at the crossroads: it’s time to root out the elites who control wildlife crime A huge seizure of ivory at Kenya's main port, Mombasa, tests the will of political leaders to apply the law on w...

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Alarm as 117 elephant carcasses found in Maasai Mara Game Reserve

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Narok, KENYA: Scientists who have been carrying wildlife census in Maasai Mara Game Reserve have stumbled on 117 fresh and old elephant carcasses. The elephants, whose tusks were missing, may have been killed by poachers or the local community in human-wildlife conflicts. Last month, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) acting Director General William Kiprono said elephant population in the Mara was declining at an alarming rate and called on residents to help security agencies reverse the trend. A senior scientist, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media on the issue, said the distribution of elephants in the expansive reserve was not even, adding that most herds had relocated. The week-long exercise was funded by Word Wide for Nature to the tune of Sh3 million. The exercise in Serengeti National Park is still going on due to the vastness of the park.

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Open Letter to WWF about Sport or Trophy Hunting

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A former WWF fan Bradley Bergh tries to understand the merits of trophy hunting as wildlife conservation.

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Hunting for a way to save wildlife

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More conservationists say hunting is a useful wildlife management tool and poaching is inevitable until rural people benefit from the wildlife around them.

 The protectionist lobby would like to ban all hunting. Its strategy regarding rhino poachers is simple – shoot the bastards.

It is a strategy that has developed into a lethal bush war that conservationists – and the rhinos – are losing...

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http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/environment/hunting-for-a-way-to-save-wildlife-1.1697440#.U4-FcPldWSo ;

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British Government Drags its Feet on Wild Animal Circuses - Again

British Government Drags its Feet on Wild Animal Circuses – Again

Originally posted on Jan Creamer:

In a shameful failure to show leadership and support the will of Parliament and public, the British Government has failed – again – to end the suffering of wild animals in travelling circuses. This weakness leaves the UK open to animals arriving with circuses from abroad.

For the second year, the promised wild animal circus ban has not been included in the…

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WildLeaks: Exposing the Links Between Elephant Poaching and Boko Haram

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WASHINGTON (VR)—A new report from US animal advocacy group Born Free USA and the US non-profit Center for Advanced Defense Studies a has pinned down with unprecedented precision the connections between the illicit trade in ivory and a variety of terrorist and insurgent groups that pose serious threats to the stability of many nations in Africa.

Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/us/2014_05_22/WildLeaks-Exposing-the-Links-Between-Elephant-Poaching-and-Boko-Haram-8766/

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Tusk discovery in Saudi desert

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A team of scientists have made an exciting discovery and dug up a huge elephant tusk in Saudi Arabia that's 300,000 years old.

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Japanese appetite for ivory fuels poaching epidemic

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Poorly controlled ivory sales in Japan are encouraging illegal trade in elephant tusks and large amounts of ivory are entering the domestic market.

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Pregnant elephant speared to death by poachers in Kenya

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They are creatures of magnificent beauty, with the intelligence to match, and yet day after day they are hunted mercilessly for their ivory tusks.

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Ancient tusk a clue to elephant history

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VietNamNet Bridge – Tay Nguyen (The Central Highlands) in Viet Nam is renowned for its natural beauty with huge gentle elephants and also for a precious elephant tusk fossil that has been recently revealed.

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Limits on Ivory Sales, Meant to Protect Elephants, Set Off Wide Concerns - New York Times

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Limits on Ivory Sales, Meant to Protect Elephants, Set Off Wide Concerns New York Times New federal rules aimed at blocking the sale of ivory to protect endangered elephants are causing an uproar among musicians, antiques dealers, gun collectors...

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Elephants Today Have No Place to Hide

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Today the world has grown smaller; the human population is expanding and exploding, and the elephants and their ancestral homelands are being systematically disregarded, discarded and destroyed....

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Letter from Africa: Elephant in the room

If an elephant could have been present at the Wildlife in Danger conference, what would it have said? Read on...

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This event is to remember the beautiful bull elephant Toto, poached nearly a year ago with a poison arrow. We will be posting photos, video, and personal stories to remember and honor him and invite you to share your own thoughts, images, artwork and memories.  Our current cover photo is of Walk With Rangers' Raabia Hawa, an Honorary Warden based in Kenya, with Toto. Please invite your friends ~ Toto deserves to be remembered and his loss also symbolizes the 96 elephants who die needlessly every day for their ivory tusks.  Please, help Walk With Rangers bring immediate change to the ground. 

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Royal ivory: Why Prince William is right

Prince William’s announcement that he wants the royal family’s ivory to be destroyed shows his personal commitment to do everything he can to help save species threatened by wildlife crime. It is also the right thing to do.

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Mourning the Loss of a Great Elephant: Torn Ear – News Watch

Mourning the Loss of a Great Elephant: Torn Ear – News Watch

Mourning the Loss of a Great Elephant: Torn Ear – News Watch.

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