Elephants the last Mastodons

 Elephants the last Mastodons

 

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Unless Western and African nations can turn things around fast

In order to protect the 400,000 or so left

Then the elephants of Africa, pretty much all of them, 
will soon be gone.

This is just Africa

(Courtesy of http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/

2014/08/140818-elephants-africa-poaching-cites-census/)

12 million elephants south of the Sahara in the early 1900's, We have executed more than that have died naturally, and average age is 60/70 yrs so there is no hiding the fact that we are totally responsible.

How many of us have or have had a Ivory product? well I am guilty there although not from a elephant but some other animal. The point being is, it was bought by me (many moons ago when I was naive and didn't really know why I bought it in the first place, other than it was fixed in silver and looked nice, how stupid) and in doing so gave premise to keep killing for ivory, profit made by seller, kill more for ivory, sell more product. I gave my stamp of approval. And that does not make me feel very good.

As if elephants do not have enough to contend with 

as this brave little feller faces a lion pack

We take them from there habitats put them in circus's, the elephant escapes (I wonder why) and ends in a world he knows nothing about

Hit by a bus.

Where he should have been

Hit by a train, elephants roam India and are protected species and well into Indian culture

how ever India is a growing country with mass populations and progress

A fatality of such and this is not a unusual site to see.

And man (Past)

And (Present)

All of the pretty things that you can wear, put on a shelf
or hang as a trophy

Oh! look at all these MEMORIES

Is this the representation of our love of the elephant and other creatures. Something magical that must be carved into pieces so that we may remember them when they have gone from the wild. And to be grateful that we can still see them in zoos as a reminder, we did not kill them all. Saving some for generations to see, like live exhibits rather than the stuffed ones in the museums or on someones wall. 

When I was much younger I read many books and movies about the world and was awed by what was around me. The world to me then was a very innocent place and I wanted to see it. As part of my career path I joined the Merchant navy and did see so much of it but not in the way I thought as I saw in books and movies. The real truth started coming out and I saw a different world. Books films and other media will only show what you ask but go out there and let roads take you places and you then realise there is much going on and not all good.

It has been many years since those days and like everyone of us, you also find the same and if it hits you smack in the face you might just realise that you cannot just let it happen ( I speak about wild life, yours could be about hunger). There are many ways to help wildlife even by the spread of the word as this blog is doing, creating awareness of the plight of many. 

Money is not always the answer. Education and the will of all to understand the value of everything put on this earth will be the day when man joins hands together for the benefit of our existence and all others. How can we work with it all instead of removing it as an answer, this is where we are at.

Quote from: Edgar Allen Poe.....

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect on humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. 

Steven Hawkins
I am adding this from Steven Hawkins. You have heard the saying ''What goes around'' ''Comes around''. Stephen Hawking on 'Into the Universe': Stephen Hawking warns that humans should stop trying to talk to aliens, because they may want to destroy us

 Courtesy of
 http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/stephen-hawking-universe-stephen-hawking-contact-aliens-killed-article-1.165374

Please say thank you from the supplier of those lovely objects above

A chainsaw was used on this elephant

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Tiger-100,000-Less than 3,200 tigers exist in the wild today.

Tiger-100,000 - Less than 3,200 tigers exist in the wild today

If wild tigers are continued to be killed, they could become extinct within 20 years.

The Tiger - Panthera tigris, is one of the largest and most powerful predators to stride our planet.

In the usually dispassionate language of science, the tiger is anointed as a "charismatic species" - In other words, an animal possessed of both beauty and rare mystique.

Yet while the tiger is celebrated in folk legends and mythologies throughout the world, its presence on earth is greatly threatened.

Fewer than 3,200 tigers now survive in the wild, and extinction in our lifetime is a real possibility.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Nearly every part of this cat, from nose to tail ‎ (eyes, whiskers, brains, flesh, blood, organs and more) has been used to treat a lengthy list of maladies.

Tiger parts are purported to heal the liver and kidneys, to cure everything from epilepsy, baldness, toothaches, joint pain and boils to ulcers, nightmares, fevers, and headaches. They’re also used to treat rat bites and laziness and are thought to prevent possession by evil demons. Tiger penis is said to have aphrodisiac powers.

China formally banned domestic trade of tiger bone in 1993. The next year, some Chinese medical practitioners publicly repudiated the use and efficacy of tiger remedies; today, very few pharmacies still openly carry remedies containing tiger products. But the market slipped underground and shadowy networks still thrive.

Though tiger hunting is illegal everywhere, the killing has continued, and in some places, it’s accelerated.

Prices for tigers, dead or alive, continue to soar as populations collapse. Poaching for their bones (and skins) has become a primary threat to their survival."

NOW CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF THIS WORKS FOR THEM?

Bile: Used to treat convulsions in children
Blood: Used to strengthen the constitution and build willpower
Bone: Used as an anti-inflammatory to arthritis, rheumatism, back problems, general weakness, or headaches; also considered a powerful tonic
Brain: A treatment for laziness and pimples
Claws: A sedative for sleeplessness
Eyeballs: A treatment for malaria and epilepsy, nervousness or fevers in children, convulsions and cataracts
Fat: Prescribed for dog bites, vomiting, hemorrhoids
Faeces: A cure for boils, hemorrhoids and alcoholism
Flesh: Used to treat nausea and malaria, to bring vitality and tone the stomach and spleen
Feet: Used to ward off evil spirits
Fur: Is burnt to drive away centipedes
Nose leather: Used to treat bites and other superficial wounds, for epilepsy and children’s convulsions
Penis: Used as an aphrodisiac or love potion
Skin: Used to cure fever caused by ghosts and mental illness
Stomach: Prescribed for stomach upsets
Teeth: Prescribed for rabies, asthma, and genital sores
Tail: Used to cure skin diseases
Whiskers: Used to treat toothaches

I HAVE NEVER READ SUCH BS AS ABOVE

Wildife crime is a highly organised and violent business.

It fuels a massive illegal trade that has an estimated value of US$19 billion a year and involves organized criminal networks that are often involved in drugs and human trafficking.

Tigers are poached for their fur, bones and organs (which are sold as delicacies in restaurants) or used in traditional medicines and as status symbols.

The illegal tiger trade is growing because of a claim in Far Eastern culture and Traditional Chinese Medicine that tiger parts can cure human illnesses. This is scientifically unproven.

Claims include that consuming a tiger eyeball will help cure epilepsy; or that tiger bone wine will help cure arthritis.

The demand for tiger skins and tiger bone wine is booming as wealthy businessmen buy these goods to prove their wealth. These products are also used as bribes for promotions within corporations.

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Rhino the never ending saga of murder

Rhino the never ending saga of murder

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Scientific name:
Ceratotherium simum (White Rhino)
Diceros bicrnis (Black Rhino)

To date 1,215 rhinos have been killed for their horn in South Africa alone
(Statistics 2014 1st January to date)
3569 killed by poachers so far. 
The gestation period for a Rhino is
15/16 months and if three a day are killed? 
Well you work out the numbers

The Kruger national park in South Africa has the highest count of 672 kills. And the for the record the Kruger national park is the equivalent in size to wales in the united kingdom. It is also just on the out skirts of the park where my wife and I lived in the area of Mpumalanga where we spent a lot of time working, enjoying and being with leopards and other animals when ever we could. Memories well preserved in our minds.

Mpumalanga is considered to be one of the most geographically diverse and unbelievably beautiful places on earth

Our back door view of where we used to live

 The circled area is where we lived next door to Kruger

And now here I am desperately trying to help the endangered Rhino of the Kruger and Rhino world wide with so many other caring souls.

African Rhinos are required for their body parts mainly being the horn to which is broken down to a powder and used as medicine. The same make up of the horn as your own finger nails.

In other words your finger nails can cure ailments, hangovers, fevers, sexual impotence and even to help devil possession and now without evidence can cure Cancer. Which has now increased its value even more? 
So I guess we had all better all start chewing our very expensive finger nails.
Rhinos are the second largest land mammal on earth. Elephants being the first. It is they and other animals that change the very ecosystem they live upon. If something is removed then the consequences can be catastrophic.

When the Rhino are gone what will happen to the plains of Africa and other places on earth without Rhino.
Let’s look at a video and watch the re-introduction of wolves to Yellow Stone park in America

If a few wolves can change a large scale of the environment into something for all species to live in, then man is only the catalyst for the reverse. As proved.

Landscapes will become different places and the ecosystem will change unless something is done to stop the slaughter of Rhino in Africa.

Now lets see how man and his need for sexual impotence and promise will affect the African plains.

 As there is much info on this, click the image for more information

Remove 29,000 rhinos from planet earth and watch our enviroment change that we as visitors and invaders do all the time across the planet. The fruit basket of earth cannot be replenished once all has been taken and eaten or destroyed.

$1.5 million worth and it's called ''Art''

Sold for profit like you would buy sugar on the supermarket shelf. As the owner of this shop in Vietnam and I quote ''A lot of my patients have bought it'' ''But I don't see any effects''

Then why does this beautiful animal lay dead

A leopard that lives for 15 years contributes more than R85 million to the state coffers.

That’s the finding of a study conducted by the research institute Tourism Research, Economics, Environment and Society (Trees) of the North-West University’s Potchefstroom campus which was commissioned by SANParks. Prof. Melville Saayman of Trees and the lead researcher said yesterday that eco-tourism and especially the Big Five were invaluable for South Africa.

Hunters know exactly what a wild animal is worth, but the value of the same animal in a national park had not yet been determined. The organization “Trees” in a recently published study found that tourists are willing to pay more than R3 500 to view the Big Five in the Kruger National Park. The research team found a small family of three people spent about R10 000 for a four-day visit to the Kruger National Park. The researchers questioned about 600 visitors to the park.

The visitors were asked to indicate how much of their holiday money they would spend to see the Big Five. According to the results they are willing to pay on average R1 136.43 to see a leopard, R1 007.17 for a lion, R753, 12 a rhinoceros, R658, 91 for an elephant and R498, 50 for buffalo. Saayman pointed out the average lifespan of a leopard is estimated at 15 years and if 5 000 people saw the animal annually, this is an R85 232 250 contribution to the economy.

“The Kruger National Park attracts over a million visitors per year and this income supports between 300 000 and 600 000 people who live in the park’s surrounding areas,” Saayman said. The team conducted research at Punda Maria in the north of the Park and the Olifants Letaba and Mopani Rest Camp. Saayman said it is clear from the research that eco-tourism is a major job creator and that it makes a tremendous contribution to the public purse.

The findings can be very positive consequences for wildlife conservation organizations and private reserves. From a marketing standpoint, the addition of the Big Five to more parks and private game reserves is a highly attractive bait for visitors Saayman said.

Article curtisy of http://spurwingtourism.com/the-big-5-is-big-money/

So a Rhino is far more profitable alive than dead. So what people should be doing is helping tourism to make profit on a continual basis but instead many wish them dead for a ''ONE TIME PROFIT''

The big five of Africa

Or will it be

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