Target:CITES Secretary-General Willem Wijnstekers Sponsored by:Care2.com
Kenyan Wildlife Authorities recently seized $1 million worth of elephant tusks and rhino horns bound for ivory markets in Asia. The growing demand of ivory has lead to skyrocketing rates of illegal poaching, and unless sales are permanently banned, elephants and rhinos are likely to go extinct.
For the past 20 years, members of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITE have allowed a limited legal ivory trade. But as ivory prices continue to rise on the black market, hundred of elephants and rhinos are being slaughtered annually -- threatening the already endangered populations.
The illegal poaching of elephants and rhinos is escalating and unless ivory sales are permanently banned, it is likely that these amazing creatures will no longer roam the earth. Now is the time to urge international leaders to permanently ban the sale of ivory once and for all!
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