When will we ever learn? 30% of the African herds have been cruelly decimated in the last 7 years. Butchered by callous poachers for their tusks. Machine gunned in the bush for the Asian market.
Nothing is sacred. There is no respect for life or nature in this short-term stupidity. They destroy the planet for a handful of silver.
Elephant tusks are large canine teeth. Ivory is the same dentine we have in our own teeth. It has not intrinsic value yet, just because certain Asian people value it, it has an artificial price. These poor animals are being brutally killed by sadistic poachers for a worthless product.
The poachers should be hunted down and locked up for life. The people who deal with ivory should be hunted down and locked up. The corrupt officials and those who sell ivory should be locked up too. This madness has to stop!
Rhino horn is made of keratin. Exactly the same material that finger-nails are made off. Nothing more. It has absolutely no medicinal value. It does not cure impotence. That is quackery and superstition. Yet rhinos are hunted down and slaughtered in the most horrendous way. Their horns are slashed out of their head before they are dead.
Lock up all who deal with this trade – the Chinese medicine and all officials who corruptly sanction this abhorrent trade.
The Chinese need telling to stop destroying our planet! The government needs to act. All the shops and medicine shops stocking illegal animal products should be shut down immediately!
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