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News from Action For Nosey Now: Positive NEW Progress on Nosey's Law! Help Us Say Thanks!
Positive Progress on 'Nosey's Law'
On Wednesday (November 2nd) New Jersey Assemblyman Raj Mukherji agreed to co-sponsor the bill. This is great news because having a co-sponsor is a prerequisite before the bill can be taken to the assembly to be voted on.
In 2014 Elephants DC wrote a great article about Assemblyman Raj Mukherji on the dodo, which you can read here
Please Thank Assemblyman Raj Mukherji (via Twitter ) For co-sponsoring Nosey's Law ~ Feel free to write your own tweets to @RajMukherji or just click the re-tweet icon below to re-tweet our tweets directly from here
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On Wednesday (November 2nd) New Jersey Assemblyman Raj Mukherji agreed to co-sponsor the bill. This is great news because having a co-sponsor is a prerequisite before the bill can be taken to the assembly to be voted on.
In 2014 Elephants DC wrote a great article about Assemblyman Raj Mukherji on the dodo, which you can read here
Please Thank Assemblyman Raj Mukherji (via Twitter ) For co-sponsoring Nosey's Law ~ Feel free to write your own tweets to @RajMukherji or just click the re-tweet icon below to re-tweet our tweets directly from here
Thanks ~ Action For Nosey Now - Visit Web site at anytime for up to date News about Nosey, The Elephant!
.@RajMukherji @SenatorLesniak @GovChristie We support #NoseysLaw! http://bit.ly/2fENYwd
As helicopters fly overhead, a young elephant runs for cover. He has learned to fear the sound of chopper blades... which all too often is followed by poachers' gunfire.
In this helicopter there are only researchers with clipboards. They are a part of the Great Elephant Census and their findings tell a horror story.
On this particular day, the scientists have seen more dead elephants than living ones.
We urgently need your donation to reverse this terrifying trend.
In this helicopter there are only researchers with clipboards. They are a part of the Great Elephant Census and their findings tell a horror story.
We urgently need your donation to reverse this terrifying trend.
The Great Elephant Census found just 352,000 savanna elephants left in Africa – that's down from approximately 1.3 million in 1979. If we don't act fast, we'll lose half of those remaining in the next decade. Your donation now can help us attack the poaching crisis head on.
Elephants are a keystone species. A thriving elephant population directly supports healthy savanna and forest ecosystems. If elephants are lost, lions will soon follow, then giraffes, zebras, cape buffalos... the list goes on and on. Africa's entire ecosystem could hang on our ability to save this species.
The good news is we can reverse this trend with your help. African Wildlife Foundation's anti-poaching strategies work. From protecting elephants' habitats to allow them to roam safely... to training sniffer dogs to detect contraband ivory... to advocating for international ivory bans... to educating consumers, we've got it covered.
Please give today. Before they're all gone. Make your most generous gift now!
Elephants are a keystone species. A thriving elephant population directly supports healthy savanna and forest ecosystems. If elephants are lost, lions will soon follow, then giraffes, zebras, cape buffalos... the list goes on and on. Africa's entire ecosystem could hang on our ability to save this species.
The good news is we can reverse this trend with your help. African Wildlife Foundation's anti-poaching strategies work. From protecting elephants' habitats to allow them to roam safely... to training sniffer dogs to detect contraband ivory... to advocating for international ivory bans... to educating consumers, we've got it covered.
Please give today. Before they're all gone. Make your most generous gift now!
With slow and graceful movements, baby elephants and their family roam the wild in Africa. When they're left free in the wild, they can roam up to 5O miles every day.[1]
But right now, baby elephants are being torn from their mothers -- shipped to China from Zimbabwe. They are subjected to living in cramped crates and enduring possible abuse.
It is cruel to subject elephants -- these emotional and intelligent creatures -- to the trauma of separation from their families. We need to stop it.
Elephants are meant to live in the wild. They are meant to roam in large herds with their family, not alone and held in captivity in China.
But Zimbabwe has been sending elephants to China for months -- maybe years.
They will continue to ship these precious elephants to their death unless we take immediate action.
Sign your name to help STOP Zimbabwe from shipping elephants to their slaughter: http://go.saveanimalsfacingextinction.org/Zimbabwe
But Zimbabwe has been sending elephants to China for months -- maybe years.
They will continue to ship these precious elephants to their death unless we take immediate action.
Sign your name to help STOP Zimbabwe from shipping elephants to their slaughter: http://go.saveanimalsfacingextinction.org/Zimbabwe
New DiCaprio film underscores critical need for tenBoma in Africa
The film depicts the dark side of the ivory supply chain, from undercover raids in East Africa to wholesale ivory markets in Vietnam. It features partners of IFAW’s tenBoma network, which includes the Kenya Wildlife Service, NGOs like Big Life and Tsavo Trust, and Maasai communities that are working so hard to protect the wildlife that is core to their way of life.
Big Life plays a particularly prominent role in the film. In addition to providing anti-poaching outposts and mobile patrol units, Big Life’s involvement in the tenBoma network extends to an unlikely need highlighted by the film: helping local Maasai communities avoid human-wildlife conflict (HWC).
In southern Kenya, raids by elephants and other wildlife cost local Maasai communities millions of dollars in lost human lives, crops and livestock every year. When an elephant destroys crops that represent a farmer’s livelihood, that farmer is much more likely to engage in a retribution killing or to aid a poacher looking for a target.
IFAW, Big Life and other NGOs operating in this critical elephant landscape provide compensation to these local communities, to help offset the costs of HWC and ensure sustainable livelihoods for these communities. In exchange, these local communities help protect critical wildlife corridors by keeping their eyes out for poachers, a key component of the tenBoma program.
“Human lives and property will continue to be lost in the battle to protect elephants in the wild until a comprehensive solution is found that is innovative, highly collaborative, and provides sufficient economic benefits to those who otherwise suffer the losses of living with elephants,” says Richard Bonham, the president of Big Life.
IFAW’s tenBoma field staff are working with Big Life and other NGOs on the ground in Kenya to give them the tools and resources to address both poaching and HWC. With tenBoma equipment and training, community scouts like those depicted in The Ivory Game will be able to deliver GPS-tagged poaching, HWC and wildlife incursion data to the Kenya Wildlife Service instantly, helping us achieve our collective goal of protecting communities and saving wildlife.
Please visit www.theivorygame.com for more information about the film and how to watch it.
US passes wildlife trafficking act
The wildlife trafficking act would ensure that the US government best coordinates its own efforts, and treats wildlife crime like other serious crimes.
UPDATE: This blog was originally published on September 19. The House and Senate aligned their versions on September 21, and the final version was signed into law by President Obama on October 7.
The United States Senate passed the END Wildlife Trafficking Act, a bipartisan bill that aims to tackle one of the most pressing environmental issues we face.
Strengthening our own laws puts the US in a great position to ask other countries to do likewise.
The timing is fortunate: Next week is the beginning of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, the world’s largest and most important gathering of wildlife agencies, where the fate of hundreds of species lies in the balance.
The Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt (END) Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016 would prompt federal agencies to work with their counterparts overseas to improve law enforcement, create consumer demand reduction programs, support community conservation (such as IFAW’s Kitenden Corridor initiative in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park), and much more.
It would also ensure that the US government best coordinates its own efforts, and treats wildlife crime like other serious crimes. Presently, wildlife trafficking takes a backseat to flashier illicit industries like gun-running and counterfeiting, but we now know that these criminal enterprises are often linked.
The legislation was championed by Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and builds on the efforts of Representatives Ed Royce (R-CA) and Eliot Engel (D-NY), whose earlier bill passed the House late last year. Now, the House and Senate will work to align their versions and—if all goes well—send the final draft to President Obama for his signature.
There were some elements of the House bill that didn’t make it to this stage, and IFAW will continue to advocate for tougher penalties for traffickers and stronger support for Wildlife Enforcement Networks.
But passage of this legislation would be a tremendous accomplishment and a sign that Congress can still find areas of agreement, even during an otherwise less-than-agreeable period on Capitol Hill.
IFAW commends all of the members of Congress and their staff who have worked so hard and made such positive strides on this crucial issue.
Keep an eye on this space for news of the final vote!
UPDATE: This blog was originally published on September 19. The House and Senate aligned their versions on September 21, and the final version was signed into law by President Obama on October 7.
The United States Senate passed the END Wildlife Trafficking Act, a bipartisan bill that aims to tackle one of the most pressing environmental issues we face.
Strengthening our own laws puts the US in a great position to ask other countries to do likewise.
The timing is fortunate: Next week is the beginning of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, the world’s largest and most important gathering of wildlife agencies, where the fate of hundreds of species lies in the balance.
The Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt (END) Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016 would prompt federal agencies to work with their counterparts overseas to improve law enforcement, create consumer demand reduction programs, support community conservation (such as IFAW’s Kitenden Corridor initiative in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park), and much more.
It would also ensure that the US government best coordinates its own efforts, and treats wildlife crime like other serious crimes. Presently, wildlife trafficking takes a backseat to flashier illicit industries like gun-running and counterfeiting, but we now know that these criminal enterprises are often linked.
The legislation was championed by Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and builds on the efforts of Representatives Ed Royce (R-CA) and Eliot Engel (D-NY), whose earlier bill passed the House late last year. Now, the House and Senate will work to align their versions and—if all goes well—send the final draft to President Obama for his signature.
There were some elements of the House bill that didn’t make it to this stage, and IFAW will continue to advocate for tougher penalties for traffickers and stronger support for Wildlife Enforcement Networks.
But passage of this legislation would be a tremendous accomplishment and a sign that Congress can still find areas of agreement, even during an otherwise less-than-agreeable period on Capitol Hill.
IFAW commends all of the members of Congress and their staff who have worked so hard and made such positive strides on this crucial issue.
Keep an eye on this space for news of the final vote!
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African elephants are family oriented-animals that, as a keystone species, dramatically affect their landscape. They are seed dispersers and influence forest composition by creating clearings that boost tree regrowth and reducing cover to create suitable habitat for other animals.
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