BY FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL, May 20, 2020
Let’s face it. This was already a disaster.
We’d already seen the illegal trade in African elephant parts surge to industrial levels. We’d already reached the point of poachers firing machine guns out of helicopters into their herds. We were already struggling to secure enough protection, enough funding or enough support to combat it.
The world was already running out of elephants to protect.
But it just got worse.
Because we’ve just lost one of the strongest tools in our belt.
Tourism has funded so much of Africa’s conservation. The industry brings the continent billions of dollars per year and employs millions of people - often from some of the most impoverished areas. It pays rangers’ wages, and gives potential poachers other options. Whilst it’s no silver bullet, when done right it’s undeniably a force for good.
That’s now gone. Entirely. Pretty much overnight.
We have to help these magnificent animals, and the communities their survival depends on.
If elephants are put in a situation where the number of poachers surges and the number of rangers plummets, the cost - in lives - will be unbearable. They will be gunned down on a sickening scale.
We mustn’t let that happen.
Through your donations we can keep their protection in the field. We can keep rangers safely on patrol and take urgent action to ensure the local people hit hardest are sustained through this crisis - so they don’t need to resort to poaching.
The post-Covid world will be up for grabs - that much is certain - but people like you and I have the chance to choose how elephants fit into it. Here’s hoping it can be one where they roam safe and free in the wild.
Please - don't let us lose elephants. If everyone reading this donates just $10, you could help keep community rangers in the field - protecting elephants and supporting local people through this crisis. Thank you.DONATE $10
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