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Both African elephants and Asian elephants need a lot of food and freedom to survive. They wander in small to large herds over sometimes incredibly large areas, while consuming up to several hundred kilograms of plant matter in a single day.
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I have reposted this shot from many years ago for a reason. I want to ask you for your help. It only takes seconds. Please sign this WWF petition:
Sadly, it's not a happy time to be an elephant.
The poaching of Africa's elephants and rhino is escalating at an alarming rate.
The demand for ivory in Asia is insatiable.
An estimated 50,000 Elephants were poached for their Tusks last year.
Elephants are intelligent, social & affectionate animals that live in FAMILY herds and Mourn their dead. It is sad to see them staring silently at the remains of those family members who had died or been killed. Poachers are known to lie in ambush, waiting for those who they had not killed to return to the poached elephant and pay their last respects. They then open fire on them with automatic weapons and Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG 7’s). This way they wipe the whole heard from day old babies to the most senior Matriarch.
The gestation period for an Elephant is 22 MONTHS (640 days) that is nearly TWO YEARS for them to produce a baby… they can NEVER recover from this slaughter and unscrupulous poaching for the EAST.
HOW THE ELEPHANTS ARE POACHED
This is done in an extremely macabre and sadistic way, it varies from country to country, but the methods are extremely cruel and inhumane. In Mozambique (when they still had elephant herds) the poachers used to dig huge pits and then drive the elephants into them. Then they would place large old trees and firewood on top of them and set fire to the wood and burn them to death. There was no way an elephants could get out of these holes... The fear, pain and agony for them is excruciating and indescribable. Now they are driving South Africa’s elephants into Mozambique.
In Southern Chad & North Cameroon they use Automatic rifles and Machine guns; in one instance they went on a killing frenzy there and killed over 650 Elephants, every animal in every herd. They also used RPG7’s (Rocket Propelled Grenades, and hacked the Tusks out of their heads while they were dying an agonizing death…). THIS HAPPENED IN THEIR NATIONAL PARK!!!
The Congolese Military are the worst culprits in the Elephant poaching, followed close behind by Uganda, South Sudan and Cameroon. They are all involved one way or another! Mozambique have killed off ALL their Elephants and Rhino!
So, I ask you to please sign the petition. (I'd rather you signed the petition than commented on this photograph.)
And if you think you cannot change Asian culture, then think again. Remember foot binding? The Chinese stopped that overnight, once the government decided against it!
Thank you.
Information courtesy of Jim McIntosh
This World Rhino Day (September 22) show a rhino some love and join us in our campaign to bring an end to the illegal wildlife trade that is killing rhinos. Let's kill the trade before it kills wild rhinos. wwf.panda.org/killthetrade/rhinos
A Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) horn and face, Kenya, Africa.
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The WWF Wildlife Crime Scorecard report selects 23 range, transit and consumer countries from Asia and Africa facing the highest levels of illegal trade in elephant ivory, rhino horn and tiger parts.
Hard to spot! ...and otherwise an animal perfectly adapted to its habitat - were it not for the fact that humans are hunting it to the point of near extinction for the profits to be made from the illegal trade in tiger parts.
We're working for a world in which humans live in harmony with nature and where the tiger's place in its natural habitat is assured.
You can help make that happen. Here's how: bit.ly/aNDX4u
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20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat
20-24 August 2012
Mae Wong National Park, Klong Lan National Park and WWF Thailand
organize Smart Patrol Training for rangers. The training is designed
to enhance the capabilities of patrolling teams and rangers in order
to support the tiger conservation works which aims to conserve and
recover tiger populations and their prey and clamp down on poaching in
protected areas.
© WWF-Thailand / Baramee Temboonkiat