Technology can help them - DRONES
Air Shepherd Drones
Stop
Elephant & Rhino
Poaching
Extraordinary Increase in Elephant and
Rhino Poaching Deaths Threatens
EXTINCTION
40,000 elephants and over 1,200 rhinos killed by poachers in a single year.
At that rate both will be extinct within 10 years. In the last half-dozen years there has been an exponential increase in the killing of elephants and rhinos by poachers, Throughout Africa, over 100,000 elephants were killed between 2010 and the end of 2012 – 40,000 in 2013 alone.
Illegal poaching: $70 billion dollars a year and growing. Elephants are slaughtered for their tusks, then their ivory is carved into trinkets. China and the U.S. lead the countries that are driving the demand for ivory tusks. A single tusk can be worth more than US$ 75,000.
Rhino horns are worth over $65,000 per kilo on the black market. Criminal gangs are involved as it’s worth more than gold. The skyrocketing values of tusks (up to US$ 150,000) and horns (as much as US$ 500,000) generate extraordinary profits.
Rhino horns are worth over $65,000 per kilo on the black market. Criminal gangs are involved as it’s worth more than gold. The skyrocketing values of tusks (up to US$ 150,000) and horns (as much as US$ 500,000) generate extraordinary profits.
The problem is new, and accelerating rapidly
Vietnam’s thirst for powdered rhino horn is a new phenomenon. It didn’t exist 10 years ago. This isn’t based on an age-old tradition or eastern medicine.
Opportunists making outrageous claims regarding the power of rhino horn have created a booming market based on ignorance and greed. The rapid increase in the Chinese middle class is fueling the huge demand for carved ivory. Rhinos used to roam in the jungles of Vietnam. But not one rhino is left. They have all been slaughtered for their horns, and the Javan Rhino is now extinct.
Opportunists making outrageous claims regarding the power of rhino horn have created a booming market based on ignorance and greed. The rapid increase in the Chinese middle class is fueling the huge demand for carved ivory. Rhinos used to roam in the jungles of Vietnam. But not one rhino is left. They have all been slaughtered for their horns, and the Javan Rhino is now extinct.
We’ve developed a proven way to stop poaching. In one location in South Africa where up to 19 rhinos were being killed a month, none died during the six months that we flew there. The poaching stopped.
At the present rate of killing, all elephants and rhinos will be dead within ten years, but you can help us assure that that doesn’t happen. You can literally help save these magnificent animals from extinction.
Someday you will be able to tell your grandchildren, “Elephants and rhinos are still here because I helped to fund the program that saved their lives.”
We have the technology, we have the people, we have the experience, we know it works. Now, we just need your support.
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