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CoP15: Elephants on the line once again...![]() ... at the forthcoming 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of CITES (CoP15), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. CITES is an international treaty ratified by 175 countries. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. Every three years the the signatory countries gather to consider progress and problems and to make proposals to amend the treaty as may be required. Ironically, these meetings engender huge threats to elephants' survival. Trade in elephant products is always high on the agenda, and this year, in Doha, from 13 to 25 March, there will be the perennial debate between countries for and against the international trade in ivory. ATE is against the trade. We have been working with like-minded NGOs and individuals under the aegis of the Kenya Elephant Forum (KEF) to provide strategic information to a body of sympathetic African elephant range states called the African Elephant Coalition (AEC). ATE directors and staff, working with members of our Scientific Advisory Committee, have been instrumental in drafting five Fact Sheets to be used as lobbying tools to strengthen the no-trade case in the forthcoming debate. We reproduce them herein along with pdf versions that can be downloaded and promulgated as you wish. They are:
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pétition
Thu, 2010-02-04 09:59 by bea
Thank you for this,I have signed the pétition.Lots of love,and thank you for all your hard work!
Petition
Wed, 2010-02-03 20:52 by Massago
Thank you for all informations and for the petition. I have signed and I have sent to 5 friends... Wish elephants the best future ! We need to put all our forces to help them together.
Petition 'Say No to the Ivory Sale"
Sat, 2010-01-30 22:06 by Jude
Petition from Dame Daphne Sheldrick to the CITES Conference March 2010. Please sign and distribute widely.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/no-more-trade-in-elephant-ivory
I am so glad to see this call to action from The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust who have mounted a petition to the Conference of Parties of CITES due to meet in Doha in March 2010. On the table at the conference is a request from Zambia and Tanzania to sell their ivory stockpiles. The petition is in opposition to the Ivory Sale.
"This year the Vote of the Signatories to the CITES convention will seal the fate of Africa's elephants one way or another, and because of this all caring people have a duty to speak our forcefully, or else become guilty of sinning through silence."
Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick DBE MBE MBD DVMS
I have signed and I note Cynthia Moss has also, I hope you will as well. Please network as widely as possible, not just to elephant lovers and networks - but to animal lovers and compassionate people everywhere. We need to send a clear and loud voice to CITES.
For the Elephants!
Jude
Petition
Thu, 2010-02-04 03:33 by Pete666
Petition signed.
Pete
Petition
Wed, 2010-02-03 23:40 by Alison1962
Thankyou for this, i have signed the petition and would like to encourage many more to do so, i really hope it will be recognised , Thanks Alison
CITES
Wed, 2010-01-27 00:54 by msowers
Thanks for all this information, Harvey. I've been trying to keep up on all the developments.
I'll be very anxious until we know the outcome in March, and I can only imagine the stress it is putting on all of you.
CITES
Tue, 2010-01-26 22:01 by Donna
Thank you, Harvey, for this important info.