African and Asian elephants need your help and they need it now!

Elephant numbers have dropped by 62% over the last decade, and they could be extinct by the end of the next decade. An estimated 100 African elephants are killed each day by poachers seeking ivory, meat and body parts, leaving only 400,000 remaining."As of 2016, there are still more African elephants being killed for ivory than are being born. . . elephant populations continue to decline.”

In Hawaii 80% of the ivory sold is of illegal origin. A lot of it is freshly carved. There’s no question that this trade has been going on there for many years.

Most ivory hacked from the faces of elephants by poachers ends up in China, where master carvers are standing by. The demand there is so high that ivory sells at roughly $1,000 per pound, allowing everyone who touches it along a trade route flowing from Africa to America to Asia to get a profit share, including groups that commit terrorist acts, intelligence officials have said.

In order to save African and Asian elephants we need to stop this ongoing slaughter, reduce the demand for ivory and stop the sale of ivory that kills thousands of elephants. You can make a change by signing this petition, spreading awareness about this critical problem and help ban the sale of ivory. 

I went to Laos last summer and spent some time living on an elephant sanctuary. Spending so much time with elephants, I found that they are emotional, beautiful, kind and loving. They have a soul. They are no different from us. It’s not just a species facing extinction, it’s massive individual suffering.

Please sign this petition and get everyone you know to sign it too!