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Protect Elephants from Poaching: Don't Sell Ivory to China

Target: CITES Standing Committee members
Sponsored by: Care2

In July, the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) will consider a proposal to allow a one-time export of stockpiled ivory to China by designating China as a "trading partner" for raw ivory from Africa's legal stockpile.

Unfortunately, the illegal trade in ivory products is flourishing in China, and rising demand for ivory products in China is fueling an increase in poaching of elephants in Central Africa. A new report shows that the United States is the second largest consumer of illegal ivory products in the world - and these illegal imports come primarily from China.

This sale will only serve to further increase demand, leading to more poaching and more pressure to end the ivory ban - which would be devastating for Africa's elephants. Send an email today to tell the North American and European members of the CITES Standing Committee to protect elephants by opposing this proposal to designate China as a trading partner for raw ivory.

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To the members of the CITES Standing Committee:

I strongly oppose the proposal to designate China as a trading partner for trade in raw ivory from the elephant populations of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

The resolution amending the Appendices adopted in 2007 clearly states that trading partners must have "sufficient national legislation and domestic trade controls to ensure that the imported ivory will not be re-exported." Despite China's commendable efforts to enforce trade rules, the evidence is clear that China is unable to adequately control the illegal import and export of ivory.

A new study published by Care for the Wild International shows that large quantities of worked ivory are illegally exported from China to the United States. This study shows that the United States is the second largest consumer of illegal ivory products in the world, and that most of these illegal products come from China.

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We took action on “Protect Elephants from Poaching: Don't Sell Ivory to China”!

# 355:

10:29 pm PDT, Sep 4, Jaime Cammarata, RD, Pennsylvania

# 354:

9:01 am PDT, Sep 1, Kayla Shimanek, Ohio
Too many are being killed. Elephants are wonderful animals.

# 353:

7:16 am PDT, Aug 31, Eva Lightfoot, Maryland

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2:16 pm PDT, Aug 29, Jessica Miller, Florida

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2:42 am PDT, Aug 28, Ghania Hadda, Belgium

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6:49 am PDT, Aug 22, Joy Jaffe, Florida

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11:31 pm PDT, Aug 20, Rose Griffin, New York

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2:36 am PDT, Aug 17, Alex Won, California

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8:58 pm PDT, Aug 16, Elaine Secondo, Connecticut

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12:01 pm PDT, Aug 16, Merrill Kramer, Florida

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4:31 pm PDT, Aug 15, Taraneh Sodoma, Washington

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4:04 pm PDT, Aug 13, Kathy Lyon, Missouri

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12:08 pm PDT, Aug 13, Ellaine Janicki, Connecticut

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11:20 pm PDT, Aug 12, Kristie Lyon, Missouri
No more ivory trade. We need to abolish the whole thing. Do not sell anymore Ivory to China, they are becoming dependent on the worlds wildlife and they are depleting it. They need to learn a better way and grow up a bit as they are responsible for much destruction and they need to be responsible and we need to ensure that they are.

# 341:

1:29 pm PDT, Aug 12, Wendy Thorp, Arizona

# 340:

7:58 am PDT, Aug 11, Daniel Amon, South Carolina

# 339:

8:35 am PDT, Aug 9, Lorna Soto, Texas
STOP KILLING THE ELEPHANS!

# 338:

4:31 am PDT, Aug 9, Pavla Sudrichova, Czech Republic

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2:46 pm PDT, Aug 6, Mary Detrick, Florida

# 336:

11:30 am PDT, Aug 6, Taofoundation The Animal Orphanage, Belgium

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9:19 am PDT, Aug 5, Danielle Jensen, Missouri

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11:13 am PDT, Aug 4, Le Thanh Quyen, Viet Nam

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4:22 pm PDT, Aug 1, Laurie Fields, France

# 332:

4:22 pm PDT, Aug 1, Cl�mence Bollet, France

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4:21 pm PDT, Aug 1, Apolline Bollet, France

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3:05 am PDT, Aug 1, Bill Craig, Germany

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4:10 pm PDT, Jul 31, Patti Habowski, Ohio

# 328:

1:51 pm PDT, Jul 31, Evert Jan Klein Velderman, Netherlands

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5:30 am PDT, Jul 31, Karen Burroughs, Florida
When does mankind learn? The populations of elephants is declining with climate changes and habitat destruction . We must do all possilbe to save these incredible animals! That will mean that we do not ever purchase ivory nor do we deal with those who sell this horrible by product of death.

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5:10 am PDT, Jul 31, Rani Hasper, Thailand

# 325:

10:59 pm PDT, Jul 30, Tim Stahl, California
Stop the senseless killing of any animal for ornamentation, exotic meat or poaching for Chinese medicines. We must halt ANY trade of Ivory immediately and educate people that we are the stewards of animals for future generations. Thank You, Tim Stahl

# 324:

9:05 pm PDT, Jul 30, Jacinthe Vigneault, Canada

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9:25 am PDT, Jul 30, Kathy Rau, California

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10:00 am PDT, Jul 29, Sonya Armenia Hunter, United Kingdom

# 321:

5:10 am PDT, Jul 28, Agn�s Larteau, France

# 320:

8:18 pm PDT, Jul 27, Nicole Preste, Minnesota
I think this is absolutely revolting and sick to think that human beings are actually capable of such horrific things, not to mention that they are making it LEGAL to happen. Please, ban this practice IMMEDIATELY.

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7:42 pm PDT, Jul 27, Julie Garber, New Jersey

# 318:

10:00 am PDT, Jul 27, Jill Lambert, Missouri

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9:29 am PDT, Jul 27, Guthrie Schrengohst, Washington

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9:03 am PDT, Jul 27, Andi Laurie Alnwick, New York

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8:02 am PDT, Jul 27, A. Alnwick, New York

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4:05 am PDT, Jul 27, Lara Bedel, Australia

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6:08 pm PDT, Jul 26, Armineh Asatouri, California

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2:41 pm PDT, Jul 26, Name not displayed, Florida

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1:29 pm PDT, Jul 26, Stefan Vasile, Romania

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1:08 pm PDT, Jul 26, Andrea Laurie Alnwick, New York

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12:29 pm PDT, Jul 26, A. L. Alnwick, New York

# 308:

11:03 am PDT, Jul 26, Carolmarie Toriello, New Jersey
Animals love unconditionally and are all God's creatures. They have no voice to tell us they are suffering. PLease stop this cruelty to these precious beings.

# 307:

8:22 am PDT, Jul 26, Veronica Falcon Gomez, Mexico

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5:11 pm PDT, Jul 25, Name not displayed, New York

# 305:

7:47 am PDT, Jul 25, Phil Heinlein, New York

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5:15 pm PDT, Jul 24, Darren Tortoise Protection, United Kingdom

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9:05 am PDT, Jul 24, Michele Anderson, Minnesota

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5:39 am PDT, Jul 24, Andreas Anders, Germany

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4:42 pm PDT, Jul 23, Michelle Malchow, New York

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