What is made of ivory?
In June this year, in order to protect the wild elephants not killed by ivory in Africa, new Studio Creator Chao launched a crowdfunding public welfare activity to adopt African elephants so that they can live freely in the National Park of Sri Lanka.
We are willing to help these endangered wild elephants within our capabilities.
We are also glad to see that many enthusiastic friends participated in this activity and expressed their attitude that they would never visit the elephant show.
More and more tour groups have signed up for tourism projects to boycott elephant performances.
Everything seems to be developing in a good direction……
However, the news in recent days has made sister V sad and angry. For wild elephants, they still face a more severe survival test.
On September 7, the for-profit conservation organization “elephants without borders” and Botswana wildlife and National Park（Department of Wildlife and National Parks）Through aerial photography in recent weeks, it has been found that 87 elephants have been slaughtered and their tusks removed in the reserve near the Okavango Delta.
These elephants were shot and killed by large calibre rifles in the reserve.
The face of death was horrible.
Without exception, their tusks have been cut off, and most of the killed are adult elephants with large tusks. The young elephants have lost their families…
“Elephants Without Borders” `s Chase said:
”We count the number of dead elephants every day.“
“This elephant poaching is the largest one I have ever seen or heard of in Africa.”
You should know,
One third of African elephants have been killed in the past decade.
Elephants in Tanzania have decreased by 60% in five years. The remaining African elephants may have felt the danger and finally set foot in Botswana.
Originally, people thought they could get the strictest protection here……
However, as shown in today’s public welfare short film to boycott the trade of products, there are an endless stream of people buying ivory products. Their greed is making elephants face death.
In the film, several buyers bid for an 18th century Japanese Ivory sculpture at an ongoing art auction.
The bidding price soared from £ 30000 to £ 85000…
Finally, the woman in the green dress was photographed.
At the moment when the auction host dropped the hammer,
The lady’s face was sprayed with blood.
An elephant landed at the auction site, and a line of words appeared in the picture:
Every time ivory is sold, elephants are hunted.
I once saw a group of photos.
It records how traders in London’s Ivory warehouse in the 1920s openly weighed and checked what they bought.
In order to satisfy Britain’s expanding middle class, the ivory was made into household goods.
According to statistics, from 1860 to 1920, an estimated 30000 tons of ivory were transported from Africa to Britain, and about 1.1 million elephants were killed.
Until the end of the 19th century, Britain imported 500 tons of ivory every year, so London became the most important Ivory import base.
In 1989, in order to protect wild animals, the United Nations issued the “tooth ban order” prohibiting the ivory trade. It stipulates that no country shall sell ivory and products.
But the hunt for ivory has not stopped.
The international community has clearly stipulated that the ivory trade is an illegal trade, but many countries have turned a blind eye to the ivory trade at their borders.
Even though the Convention on international trade in endangered species of Wild Fauna and flora began, the seizure of prohibited goods became more and more strict, and tooth horn products still appeared in the market.
Some people may ask, why is it fatal for elephants to take ivory?
First, ivory cannot be regenerated. An elephant without Ivory can never grow new.
The strongest and most valuable part of ivory is the root, which grows in the skull.
In order to sell more money, poachers usually cut the elephant’s head and nose cruelly, and then extract the whole ivory from it.
This means that taking an ivory is almost equivalent to killing an elephant.
After a few turns, the ivory with blood can be made into various expensive and beautiful craft products such as Buddha heads, signboards, necklaces, beads, musical instruments and accessories.
It’s hard to imagine that when those cold ivory, rhinoceros horn, bird head and other animal products were worn on their bodies, those people did not smell a bloody smell.
What’s more, even the elephant skin was made into beads.
It is said that elephant skin has certain medicinal value, so it can cure diseases as long as it is worn……
The cruelty of stripping elephant skin is no less than taking off ivory. It seems so cruel!
Not to mention whether these rumors have certain scientific reasons, even if they do, can’t modern technology find a substitute for elephant skin?!
Fortunately, at the beginning of 2018, Britain has also begun to ban the ivory trade.
At the beginning of 2018, China also banned all commercial Ivory processing and sales. This means that any ivory products that appear in the Chinese market are illegal!
As for this ban, there is a good saying: I hope I am late, but fortunately I am not absent.
Soon after the ban was issued, a large number of domestic ivory products factories and shops faced closure.
This is a good news.
We cannot determine when elephants living in Africa will be able to stay away from danger and truly live freely.
But I believe,Only by prohibiting buying and selling can killing be prohibited.
When you see someone selling ivory products, please refuse to buy them.
Because every time ivory is sold, elephants are hunted.
