100 Elephants Killed Every Day: Join March for Elephants in San Francisco
Extinction of elephants and rhinos looms within a generation. San Francisco plays a major role in the illegal ivory trade. China is the largest illegal ivory market. March for Elephants joins over 100 global cities to demand an end to ivory and rhino horn trade.
San Francisco, United States – September 1, 2015 /MarketersMedia/ —
“We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.”
– Graydon Carter
Please join our March for Elephants and Rhinos in San Francisco
Saturday, October 3, 2015
10:30 am – 3:00 PM
Starting at Jefferson Park Square | Rally at UN Plaza
Approximately one elephant is killed every 15 minutes in the African continent, 100 elephants are killed every day, 35,000 elephants are killed every year, 1 rhino is killed every 7-11 hours and extinction looms within a generation.
San Francisco plays a major role in the illegal ivory trade. A survey commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council found that up to 80 percent of ivory in San Francisco is illegal under current law.
China is the world’s largest market for illegal ivory.
March for Elephants, San Francisco (MFE) has worked tirelessly within the Bay Area and globally to bring attention to the illegal trade in ivory and rhino horn.
MFE will be joining over 100 other cities around the globe in organizing a march and speaking out for elephants and rhinos on October 3rd 2015 in San Francisco. We’ll gather around the Chinese consulate demanding an end to the ivory trade in China, an end to the trade in San Francisco, an end to the trade in the USA and an end to the trade anywhere ivory and rhino horn are commodified. Last year, the San Francisco march and rally drew approximately 2,000 people.
MFE is a grassroots volunteer organization based in San Francisco that works on behalf of earth’s last elephants and rhinos. We are a group of dedicated advocates, lobbying strategically to promote local and global awareness about the elephant and rhino crises, calling for governments to take immediate action to end poaching in range nations, and demanding an end to the ivory and rhino horn trade at all levels: locally, nationally and internationally.
You can help us by marching for elephants in October. Learn more by visiting March for Elephants
march.for.elephants@gmail.com
For more information about us, please visit http://www.marchforelephants.org
Contact Info:
Name: Julie Callahan
Email: jcstars@earthlink.net
Organization: March for Elephants
Address:
Phone: 408-981-4134
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ozonUy2wo
Release ID: 90156
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