Adapted from Oct. 17, 2014 The Washington Post
Elephants of Africa
Our Issue Statement
African elephants will potentially be extinct by 2025 which would forever alter the makeup of African ecosystems (Hance 2011).
Between 2011 and 2012, 62 percent of the forest elephant population were killed for their valuable ivory tusks (Platt 2014). The increase in economic opportunity of the middle class in asian nations for the past decade has driven the high demand of ivory and an increasing price on the black market.
Despite passing laws and policies banning illegal hunting and the ivory trade, along with alternative economic opportunities for local people, there are still 96 elephants dying daily (96elephants.org).
"Join with people from China, the United States and around the globe in taking the Ivory Free pledge. Be IVORY FREE and do your part to end the massacre of Africa’s elephants." -IvoryFree.org
Join the Wildlife Conservation Society in helping stop put an end to the demand of ivory.
Elephants D.C. is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending the domestic trade in ivory in the United States.