Terrorist groups selling baby elephants to fund terrorism. Actions to save baby elephants from being stolen from elephant matriarchs.
I can't bear to watch Dumbo, I can't sit through Like Water For Elephants, but to tell you the truth: This one story just flattens me. Please join us to help keep baby elephants in the wild. Removing them as infants and selling them to other countries to be raised in cement zoo is cruel and inhumane. Please join forces to stop stealing baby elephants from their mothers to sell to other countries like China and Thailand. Besides the money raised in places like Zimbabwe is going to fund terrorist groups like the Boko Haram. NO MORE POACHING ELEPHANTS! African elephant poaching has reached crisis level with about 100 African elephants poached every day for their ivory. In the midst of this crisis, Zimbabwe is exporting dozens of baby elephants to China for $60,000 each, while claiming overpopulation as the motivation for export. Three out of four elephant calves exported from Zimbabwe to China in 2012 have since died, and the same fate most likely awaits this new