New Zealand Makes Progress In The Fight To Stop The Ivory Trade

New Zealand Makes Progress In The Fight To Stop The Ivory Trade

New Zealand Makes Progress In The Fight To Stop The Ivory Trade – Virginia Woolf  of Auckland, New Zealand participated in the Global Elephant March  in October 13, 2013 – the first time in recorded history that people stood up and marched for an animal.

Subsequent to that event she started to work on a petition to ban the sale of ivory in New Zealand and to crush the government stock piles of elephant ivory. Everyone knows that “When The Buying Stops – The Killing Will Stop”. With an elephant being slaughtered for its tusks every 15 minutes in Africa – elephants may become extinct in the wild within 15 to 20 years.

This is a crisis and it must be addressed now. Virginia was interviewed today on TVOne in Auckland about the ivory trade. Thank you Virginia – and all the other staunch Kiwi supporters of elephants – for all that you are doing and accomplishing. When people make a commitment to challenge the status quo and are persistent in their efforts – change can and will happen!

Watch Virginia’s interview here!

http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/call-law-change-ivory-video-6038946

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And then take a moment to read the text from the New Zealand Select Committee Decision on the Ivory Trade Ban Petition

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1407/S00416/nz-select-committee-decision-on-ivory-trade-ban-petition.htm

And remember that once again committed people are marching for endangered animals: elephants – lions and lions to name a few – on World Animal Day – October 4, 2014 – in 113 cities around the world.

You can get involved and help.

Without us – they have no voice and no power – with us – we can change the world for them!