Elephant Emergency! South Africa Slaughter!

international | animal rights | press release Tuesday April 29, 2008 20:40 by ALiberation - ALiberation aliberationnow at gmail dot com 086 3203643

Activists will demand South Africa reconsider Elephant extermination

From May, South Africa will kill elephants by pursuing them in helicopters and shooting dead whole families.

Dead Elephant on Back of Trailer

Petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ElephantCulling/

From May, South Africa will kill elephants by pursuing them in helicopters and shooting dead whole families.
South Africa claims this is a “cull” (an often used euphemism for extermination) to protect the bio diversity of the region. With no proof that the elephants are causing damage nor any will to use more scientific and humane methods for environmental control, South Africa is proving again her real intentions.
South Africa has for years tried to overturn the CITIES ban on the ivory trade and are now trying to covertly restart the industry that is the very reason that elephants are endanger of being extinct.

Instead of methods including relocation, expanding park spaces, contraceptives and creating corridors between parks to allow more even population distribution, South Africa are killing first and asking questions later.

The deep emotional, psychological, and social lives of elephants, including their feelings of altruism and friendship, aggression and fear, are scientific facts that cannot be ignored.

Apart from being highly intelligent and emotional beings, they develop close friendships and close-family ties. They also attach a special significance to death and they mourn an individual elephant who has died, often returning to a body and repeatedly touching them. When an elephant is shot, there is immediate distress on the part of the family and this trauma lasts over a long period of time

As part of an international campaign to save the elephants, animal action group ALiberation will demonstrate outside the South African Embassy. With posters, leaflets and megaphone, activists will demand that South Africa reconsider this atrocity.

Time: 1pm – 3pm

When: Friday, 2nd May

Where: South African Embassy
Alexandra House, 2nd Floor,
Earlsfort Centre,
Earlsfort Terrace, (Just beside St Stephen’s Green)
Dublin 2

More info: http://www.vegaplanet.org/?p=401#more-401
http://www.animalrightsafrica.org/AgonyOfIvory.php
http://www.animalrightsafrica.org/Elephant_Gallery.php