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Nearly Three Tons of Ivory Torched in Japan


Animals  (tags: African elephants, ivory, Japan, torched, animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 585 days ago - cnbc.com
A 2.8 ton ivory stockpile, confiscated in 2006 by Japan Customs in Osaka, has finally been incinerated -after previous reports that authorities were hesitating to do so. The record ivory haul represents the lost lives of hundreds of endangered African
Comments

Cynthia S. (35)
Friday April 25, 2008, 4:09 pm
C'mon people we can't just keep submitting articles, signing petitions we have to do something!!!!! Damn it this pisses me off!! We are literally watching the end of species and we do nothing!!! >:(
 

Joy No Messages Bergstrom (376)
Friday April 25, 2008, 5:06 pm
China, Japan, Korea, all of these people are so inhumane when it come's to animals and torching the ivory is no good for the Elephant is dead its life is gone. I wish we would pull the plug on all of them and stop the imbargo trade with them period. They do not deserve it. Why America puts up with these kind of inhumane people I will never get it. As for me I Boycott them all, they are mere morsels!! Thanks Cher C noted
 

Past Member (0)
Friday April 25, 2008, 5:34 pm
TY NOTED
 

Past Member (0)
Friday April 25, 2008, 6:19 pm
clicking to extinction on ebay
report illegal ivory being sold
 

Past Member (0)
Friday April 25, 2008, 7:55 pm
There are a lot of folks out in the world that just do not give two hoots of a care about animals etc. and that is so sad,Thank You Cher and noted
 

Deborah C. (247)
Friday April 25, 2008, 9:57 pm
OMG!!!
 

Marena Chen (201)
Saturday April 26, 2008, 12:55 am
I look at that heap of ivory and try to imagine an elephant for every two tusks. It's mind-boggling to think of the enormous number of these lumbering giants dead for the sake of two long teeth.
 

barb b. (32)
Saturday April 26, 2008, 1:07 am
noted
 

Past Member (0)
Saturday April 26, 2008, 5:54 am
Noted. Why do we "work" with these people and sell their goods here in America when we keep learning the horror those animals have to go through. There is no excuse for this inhumane/barbaric act of behavior and with no remorse from them either. It's just sick!
 

Samantha O. (374)
Sunday April 27, 2008, 1:14 am
this is so extreme and horrifying to see how many poor elephants this ivory represents but burning it is the only way to send a message that ivory will not be here to be traded and will not bre tolerated.Poachers should be shot on sight to keep numbers down. Would be poachers need to be found alternate employment so that they can survive and sustain their families and hopefully protect the animals in the process. They need to be educated and it must be impressed upon people that the elephant have more value to them as a tourist drawcard,alive than dead for ivory that will be burned anyway.
 

Susan Hall - Amado (53)
Monday April 28, 2008, 8:33 am
All those tusks belonged to beautiful living breathing elephants, who are no more. What a wast of life. The cruelty just for the sake of money, it makes me so sick. Poachers should be shot on sight. Find something else for these people to do to earn their living. This is not the way.
 
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