Sign for Elephants
We the People…
- Refuse to allow the elephant species to disappear…
- Refuse to allow poached elephants’ tusks to fund terrorism…
- Refuse to allow the deaths of rangers as they defend elephants…
- Refuse to allow the bloody ivory trade to continue in the United States of America.
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The Elephant Crisis &
How You Can Help
100 elephants per day are slaughtered in Africa for their tusks. We must end the ivory trade, or it will be the end of elephants. This May, it is vital that elephants receive 100,000 signatures across America to the White House.
We petition the president to:
Unequivocally ban the ivory commerce to save elephants from extinction
How to Sign the Petition
They don’t make it easy but it’s really this simple:
- Create an Account with We the People
- Check your email for the confirmation message
- Follow the confirmation link to activate your account
Ok, that’s sorted.
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The Crisis
On average, 100 elephants per day are being slaughtered in Africa so their tusks, also known as ivory, can be sold. At this rate a species that has walked the earth for millions of years will be made extinct. Poaching is being conducted in mass by sophisticated criminal syndicates that often slaughter an entire herd with machine guns. The tusks eventually end up being traded illegally in the #1 market, Asia, and the #2 market, the United States. The U.S. Department of State has also identified elephant poaching as a national security risk, as ivory is used to fund acts of terrorism such as the 2013 Westgate Mall terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya.
Photo by Billy Dodson
It is essential to eliminate the demand for ivory. Though many people may think ivory is illegal to trade today in the U.S., that is not the entire story. There are loopholes in the law that allow “old” or “antique” ivory to be bought and sold. The problem is, it is very difficult and expensive to tell old ivory from new ivory and thus the domestic and export ivory trades continue. These are the loopholes that are wiping out the elephant right here at home.
On Feb. 11 the president launched a new National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking which eliminated the commercial ivory import trade. However ivory continues to be smuggled into the U.S. and we need to go further. We must stop all commercial ivory sales including the domestic and export trades.
Americans Petition for Elephants
Photo by Billy Dodson
The petition urges the United States president to TOTALLY BAN the ivory trade, with only very narrow noncommercial carve-outs for museums and other cultural institutions. This immediate and historic measure for another species is required to save the elephants from extinction. It is important to know that elephants were relatively safe just 7 years ago. But at the end of the last decade the global ban was “temporarily” lifted. Today the high price of ivory is wiping elephants out faster than they can reproduce. An elephant is killed every 15 minutes.
This petition is different than many you may have come across. This one is built on the backbone of the First Amendment established in the U.S. Constitution to petition our government for change. Upon 100,000 people – like you and me – signing this petition at http://petitions.whitehouse.gov the administration must respond.
We have only one month to achieve this goal between May 1 and May 30. As the poaching crisis is urgent we ask you to please sign now.
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Sign
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
“The right to petition your government is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. We the People provides a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country. We created We the People because we want to hear from you. If a petition gets enough support, White House staff will review it, ensure it’s sent to the appropriate policy experts, and issue an official response.”
Photo by Mike Paredes
Beginning May 1 people across the nation are invited to Sign for Elephants. The petition may only be signed online as a requirement of the Administration.
It takes under five minutes to:
- Create an Account with We the People
- Check your email for the confirmation message
- Follow the confirmation link to activate your account
- Sign the petition
- Share with friends and family!
NOTE: A key step to Sign for Elephants is activating your account by clicking on a link sent to your email address from the White House which redirects you to the petition page. Once this is done, you can sign the petition.
Exposing the Big Game 
It makes me furious what poachers do! I will sign once I get the password retrieval email.
Thank you
Thank you so much for spreading the word about this important petition! And thank you for signing, paws2smile. Please share, and keep sharing. We have until May 30 to get 100,000 signatures. It’s a long shot, but maybe momentum will build over the next couple of weeks. Fingers crossed. Elephants really need all the help they can get.
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Please help save one of Nature’s best living example.