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Tell your Members of Congress: Support fully funding the U.S. contribution to the Global Environment Facility and help save threatened wildlife.
Tigers, elephants, rhinos, and countless other species are already on the edge of extinction. Now, U.S. funding for the Global Environment Facility (GEF), which fights for their protection, is on the chopping block.
TThe GEF brings together the world's governments, non-profits, and the private sector to address the biggest environmental challenges facing our planet. It plays a key role in fighting the illegal wildlife trade by working with countries to strengthen national legislation, enhance wildlife law enforcement, and improve monitoring to reduce poaching and the illegal trade in wildlife parts and products.
The GEF also works with the U.S. Forest Service to reduce illegal logging in places such as the Amazon and Congo Basins, saving habitat for jaguars, monkeys, and turtles, and shutting down key sources of the illegal timber that floods global markets.
The Administration and the House of Representatives propose slashing funding to the GEF. The U.S. Senate has recommended restoring most of the cuts. The U.S. is so close to honoring its full commitment. We need you to write Congress to tell them fully funding the GEF is important for wildlife.
Nosey the elephant is FREE!!!!
A Message from CompassionWorks International:
This morning we are ecstatic to share the amazing news that a judge in Lawrence County, Alabama has ruled in Nosey's favor. She will remain in sanctuary and never again need to know the pain and suffering of circus life!
While we expect the Liebels will appeal this decision, they face numerous and ongoing legal actions and challenges, so we are confident that this ruling will result in Nosey's forever freedom.
This is a monumental achievement, and we thank each and every one of you who raised awareness for Nosey or who worked alongside us at CompassionWorks International to help us fight for her through monitoring her whereabouts, capturing photos and videos, creating laws that ban the circus, or protesting the circus. Nosey's freedom is truly a collective and phenomenal achievement!
We are buoyed by this amazing success for Nosey, as we hope you are! Please visit cwint.org/donate to continue to support our work and to stand beside us as we fight for Anna Louise, Bo, Cindy, Jenny, and numerous other elephants still suffering behind the big top.
Thank you once again for all of your actions for Nosey, your vigilance in notifying us when you have seen her or any traveling performing animal, and for supporting CWI in our efforts to put an end to circus cruelty once and for all.
For the animals,
Carrie LeBlanc, M.A.
Executive Director
CompassionWorks International
https://www.facebook.com/CompassionWorksIntl/
https://www.instagram.com/compassionworks/
https://twitter.com/cwintl
It will come as no surprise that one of the last acts of Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe was to allow the export of 31 baby elephants to China.
As you know, Zimbabwe has been shipping captured baby elephants to China since 2012. We have been fighting to stop the trade since then.
Share this page on social media using the hashtag #BringThoseBabiesBack
Mugabe allowed the latest export, even though our supporters repeatedly made it clear to his government that condemning baby elephants to lives in zoo cages is abominably cruel.
Barely a week after the elephants left Zimbabwe, Mugabe was overthrown in a military coup. There’s a new president – Emerson Mnangagwa.
I instructed my team to immediately implore the new president to stop the trade in baby elephants.
This means no more baby elephants to Chinese zoos, but I need you to be as generous as you can today so we can keep up the fight. Let’s work to have the babies sent to China returned to Africa before it is too late. They have not yet been put in zoos, if Zimbabwe takes them home now, they still have a chance.
Let’s strike while the iron is hot. Sign our petition to the new president thanking him for banning the baby elephant trade and asking him to bring back the babies to Zimbabwe and give them the life they should lead, wild and free in Africa.
The elephants are between three and six, two of them are particularly fragile. One female baby struggled to stand and has open sores on her body. Another is so severely traumatized she shuns other elephants.
These are baby elephants still needing to suckle from their mothers. Instead, they will be locked in cages in Chinese zoos for the rest of their unhappy lives.
Also remember that China will stop at nothing to get its hands on animals to put in zoos. Now that Zimbabwe has closed the trade, other African countries may sell China elephants.
Our long-awaited, first photo sale kicks off NOW!
That's right, we're selling stunning photographs of rescued elephants, leopards, and bears — oh my!
The prints come in a variety of sizes on canvas, shipped right to your door! This is a beautiful way to to show your love and support for animals. Or get the perfect gift for that special someone this Valentine's Day.
These photos would beautifully accent any room, and remind you every day of the animals you've helped bring to freedom. Shop our entire collection at www.wildlifesos.myshopify.com.
TThe GEF brings together the world's governments, non-profits, and the private sector to address the biggest environmental challenges facing our planet. It plays a key role in fighting the illegal wildlife trade by working with countries to strengthen national legislation, enhance wildlife law enforcement, and improve monitoring to reduce poaching and the illegal trade in wildlife parts and products.
The GEF also works with the U.S. Forest Service to reduce illegal logging in places such as the Amazon and Congo Basins, saving habitat for jaguars, monkeys, and turtles, and shutting down key sources of the illegal timber that floods global markets.
The Administration and the House of Representatives propose slashing funding to the GEF. The U.S. Senate has recommended restoring most of the cuts. The U.S. is so close to honoring its full commitment. We need you to write Congress to tell them fully funding the GEF is important for wildlife.
Nosey the elephant is FREE!!!!
A Message from CompassionWorks International:
This morning we are ecstatic to share the amazing news that a judge in Lawrence County, Alabama has ruled in Nosey's favor. She will remain in sanctuary and never again need to know the pain and suffering of circus life!
While we expect the Liebels will appeal this decision, they face numerous and ongoing legal actions and challenges, so we are confident that this ruling will result in Nosey's forever freedom.
This is a monumental achievement, and we thank each and every one of you who raised awareness for Nosey or who worked alongside us at CompassionWorks International to help us fight for her through monitoring her whereabouts, capturing photos and videos, creating laws that ban the circus, or protesting the circus. Nosey's freedom is truly a collective and phenomenal achievement!
We are buoyed by this amazing success for Nosey, as we hope you are! Please visit cwint.org/donate to continue to support our work and to stand beside us as we fight for Anna Louise, Bo, Cindy, Jenny, and numerous other elephants still suffering behind the big top.
Thank you once again for all of your actions for Nosey, your vigilance in notifying us when you have seen her or any traveling performing animal, and for supporting CWI in our efforts to put an end to circus cruelty once and for all.
For the animals,
Carrie LeBlanc, M.A.
Executive Director
CompassionWorks International
https://www.facebook.com/CompassionWorksIntl/
https://www.instagram.com/compassionworks/
https://twitter.com/cwintl
As you know, Zimbabwe has been shipping captured baby elephants to China since 2012. We have been fighting to stop the trade since then.
Share this page on social media using the hashtag #BringThoseBabiesBack
Mugabe allowed the latest export, even though our supporters repeatedly made it clear to his government that condemning baby elephants to lives in zoo cages is abominably cruel.
Barely a week after the elephants left Zimbabwe, Mugabe was overthrown in a military coup. There’s a new president – Emerson Mnangagwa.
I instructed my team to immediately implore the new president to stop the trade in baby elephants.
The elephants are between three and six, two of them are particularly fragile. One female baby struggled to stand and has open sores on her body. Another is so severely traumatized she shuns other elephants.
These are baby elephants still needing to suckle from their mothers. Instead, they will be locked in cages in Chinese zoos for the rest of their unhappy lives.
That's right, we're selling stunning photographs of rescued elephants, leopards, and bears — oh my!
The prints come in a variety of sizes on canvas, shipped right to your door! This is a beautiful way to to show your love and support for animals. Or get the perfect gift for that special someone this Valentine's Day.
These photos would beautifully accent any room, and remind you every day of the animals you've helped bring to freedom. Shop our entire collection at www.wildlifesos.myshopify.com.