Sometimes when you think you couldn’t possibly get more disappointed,
you simply can. Apparently, 35,000 elephants are getting poached each year
since 2010. At this rate, elephants will go extinct in the next 100 years. Are you
serious? Yes, dead serious. Over the last 40 years, more than 600,000 elephants have
been poached in Africa. This dramatic loss is creating countless baby orphans and
breaking up entire elephant societies. They cannot sustain themselves at this rate.
We all know that the trading ivory is illegal. Has been
since 1989. But the thing is, it’s only gotten far worse since then. It’s now
turned into this cluster of organized crime, forged documents, shoot outs, smuggling, and other nasty schemes. Millions of dollars are in this black market
business so there are few things low life people wouldn’t do for that kind of
cash.
This demand is so deeply rooted in traditions and status of
some Asian cultures, that it’s hardly possible to begin to think of a single
idea about how to end this. Maybe we
need to start an Ivory Sucks campaign to nip the Worst Trend in the World Ever
in the bud. I mean wearing teeth is far grosser than wearing cat hair on your jacket. Teeth/tusks/whatever.
Don’t sport it, ancient art or fresh out of the face. Don’t do any of it. It’s
gross. It’s selfish. It’s damaging. Are we cave people? I don’t even think the
cave people were as dirty as we are today. Honestly, these savages should just poach ivory
out of their own face. Enough said. I need to stop myself before this gets too
mean to post.
Over and out.
Britt
via {Flickr, by Ed Yourdon}
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