Elephanatics
Did you know elephants are essential in the fight against climate change? Did you know it is still legal to buy and sell ivory in Canada?
How about the fact that elephants may be extinct in the wild in our lifetime?
A coalition of organizations including Elephanatics, Jane Goodall Institute of Canada, World Elephant Day, Global March for Elephants and Rhinos – Toronto, and Humane Society International – Canada created the #IvoryFreeCanada campaign to help keep our elephants alive.
We Need Your Help on #GivingTuesday!
On #GivingTuesday we want to make it our objective to reinforce the global importance of saving elephants! Elephants not only contribute to lowering Co2 levels but are keystone species responsible for maintaining other ecosystems. We have written education lesson plans on their importance and how sharing them with educators can make an impact on their survival.
To get involved, please go to https://elephanatics.org/education/ and share our lesson plans with educators in your area.
Then go to our Home page and click “Donate” to help our organization continue to educate teachers, students and communities about the dire necessity to keep elephants from becoming extinct.
Thank you for your Giving Spirit!
Elephanatics projects:
- Classroom lesson plans written for educators to teach students aged 8-14 ensures younger generations are aware of the importance and issues facing elephants. Share our lesson plans!
- Ride a Bike Not an Elephant Campaign to raise awareness of Asian elephants forced to work in the tourist trade and Global March for Elephants and Rhinos to bring awareness to poaching and human-elephant conflict. Shop our merchandise for #GivingTuesday or any day: https://teespring.com/stores/elephanatics-bc
- Ivory-Free Canada coalition that includes: Elephanatics, Jane Goodall Institute Canada, World Elephant Day, Global March for Elephants and Rhinos – Toronto, and Humane Society International – Canada is advocating to end the legal trade of ivory in Canada. The campaign includes a change.org petition with over 512,000 signatures. Help us reach 1 million signatures by signing and sharing the petition.
- Fundraising to support organizations such as; Mara Elephant Project, Global Elephant Sanctuary, Garamba Rangers and various other organizations in need.
By donating to Elephanatics, you are helping us continue to educate and take action to save the world’s remaining elephants.
Click here to support Elephanatics!
Thank you for your Giving Spirit!
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The ongoing slaughter of African elephants for their tusks has decimated elephant populations. Today, this magnificent animal is highly endangered and on the brink of extinction. Since 1980, the number of elephants in Africa has fallen from 1.3 million to just over 400,000. Currently, an estimated 20,000 elephants are killed every year for their ivory. At this rate, they will be erased from the wild in our lifetime.
Countries that have banned the domestic sale of elephant ivory within their borders, or are in the process of doing so, include China, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Belgium, Luxembourg, and several states in the United States. The Canadian government has not complied as yet. Shockingly, Canada is directly contributing to the destruction of one of the planet’s largest, most intelligent and most iconic species by keeping its elephant ivory market open for business!
Canada also legally permits elephant trophies to be imported. Between 2007 and 2016, Canada allowed the importation of 83 trophy elephants, 434 elephant skulls and 260 elephant feet.
The following organizations are working together as a coalition to act in concert to end the legal trade in elephant ivory in Canada: Elephanatics, Humane Society International-Canada; World Elephant Day; Global March Elephants and Rhinos – Toronto; and the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada.
Please join the Ivory-Free Canada coalition and tell our government to end the legal domestic trade of elephant ivory. Look for our campaign – #IvoryFreeCanada.
Here’s how you can help save elephants:
- Sign and share our petition! More than 400,000 have signed already – thank you! If you haven’t added your name yet, please help us reach our goal of 500,000 signatures.
- Trumpet the issue on social media! Watch for us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and share using #ivoryfreeCanada.
- Open link below and SIGN the letter provided for you from Kate
Brooks, The Last Animals, movie producer, to Canadian
lawmakers asking they end the trade in elephant ivory and become an
#ivoryfreecanada. We thank Kate Brooks for her support and highly
suggest you watch her movie.
https://thelastanimals.com/take-action-global-initiatives/
Thanks for joining our herd!
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I Want A Rescued Elephant for Christmas, A Rescued Elephant is All I Want…
We have nearly raised enough money to rescue an elephant from the tourism industry and retire her to a sanctuary in Thailand. Might it be possible to do it by the end of the year?! What a great Christmas present that would be for all of us. To top up the donation bank account, Elephanatics will be gift wrapping by donation at the 35th Annual Knights Christmas Market on November 24 & 25, 2018 in Burnaby, BC.
The Knights Christmas Market is spectacular! With over 100 vendors, live music, a bistro, raffles, 50/50 draws, baked goods, a book fair, handmade artisans and brimming cups of Christmas cheer, what more could any elf want? 100% of the gift wrapping net proceeds will go to rescuing the tourism elephant.
We are indebted to our generous sponsors Eddie’s Hang-Up Display Ltd. for donating the wrap and ribbon, and STMC Knights Christmas Market for providing us a complimentary vendor space at the market.
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ELEPHANTS LIKE TO PARTY TOO!
Hello!
We are Elephanatics, an elephant advocacy organization in Vancouver. Our mission is to raise awareness of the poaching crisis in Africa and the unethical tourism trade in Asia.
We strive to educate people through various mediums of outreach. The last four years we hosted the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos. This year we are hosting a burger and beer fundraiser at Library Square Public House. It’s a fun night where you can eat, drink, socialize and help save elephants!
Your ticket will include a burger, a beer and a donation. You will have the option to substitute a veggie burger (made with quinoa and brown rice) for the beef burger and a vodka or gin for the beer. 100% of the net money raised will be sent to the Mara Elephant Project in Kenya. The project uses anti-poaching rangers, the collaring and monitoring of elephants, and the separation of farmers and elephants to save and protect African elephants from extinction. There will also be a fabulous silent auction for you to bid on and some light entertainment.
Please invite your friends, family and anyone who loves elephants to help support a good cause and have a good time doing so! You will help stop the death of up to 20,000 elephants every year in Africa.
Thank you for checking us out. We look forward to seeing you in October!
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Help Us Save a Tourism Elephant From Abuse
Two of Elephanatics’ directors – Tessa Vanderkop and Leanne Fogarty – will be dressing in full elephant costume and plunging into the icy waters of English Bay on January 1! Why? To rescue an abused tourism elephant in Thailand and retire her to the Elephant Nature Park.
Please sponsor Leanne or Tessa with a donation (no amount is too small) here or here. Every cent you donate will go directly towards saving the elephant.
Come cheer us on at:
The 98th Annual Polar Bear Swim
Monday, January 1, 2018 at 2:30 pm
English Bay, downtown Vancouver
Curious how elephants suffer physically and mentally when made to give tourists rides? Watch this video, but if it may distress you, you may prefer to read this summary.
Please Sign Petition Below
Will we be the generation that lets elephants become extinct?
A shocking 20,000 elephants are killed every year for their ivory. Scientists and conservationists agree that at this rate, both African and Asian elephants will be extinct in the wild within our lifetime.
Even so, at the last IUCN World Conservation Congress, Canada was 1 of only 4 countries to oppose the closure of domestic ivory markets across the globe.
Ivory is so valuable on the black market that organized terrorism syndicates such as the Lord’s Resistance Army are committing mass slaughter using helicopters and AK-47 rifles. In 1980 Africa had more than 1.3 million elephants – today it has approximately 415,000. In less than 40 years, 70% of our elephants have disappeared.
In 1989, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) made it illegal to sell elephant ivory internationally. But each country makes its own laws regarding the sale of ivory within their borders. When domestic trade is allowed it permits illegal ivory (poached after 1989) to be sold along with legal ivory because it’s difficult to differentiate between old and new ivory without extensive and costly testing. The only way to protect elephants from extinction is to ban ALL elephant ivory trade.
China is the largest consumer of ivory in the world. It shut down its domestic ivory trade at the end of 2017. If China can stop their domestic trade, why can’t Canada?
On March 1, 2018, the United States lifted the ban on the importation of elephant trophies. If the U.S. cannot protect elephants, there is even more onus on the rest of the world to do all we can to save this iconic species.
We feel new legislation can protect both elephants and the indigenous trade of narwhal and walrus. We ask the government of Canada to:
1. ban all domestic trade of elephant ivory; and
2. make the import, export and re-export of all elephant ivory illegal.
Let’s make Canada one of the many countries changing their laws to allow the survival of the world’s largest mammal before it’s too late. Sign for an #ivoryfreecanada.
Sincerely,
Fran Duthie
President, Elephanatics
www.elephanatics.org
Photo Credit – Larry Laverty
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Our new campaign spreads awareness of the damage suffered by elephants ridden in the tourist industry. Please ‘Ride a Bike’ to help us rescue a tourism elephant so it can retire at the Elephant Nature Park.
Elephanatics will be hosting the Annual Global March for Elephants and Rhinos 2017 in Vancouver again!
Mark your calendars!
Date: Saturday September 30th, 2017
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location: Creekside Park – behind Science World – 1455 Quebec St, Vancouver, BC V6A 3Z7
Why Join:
Every year people in over 130 cities around the world organize events to raise awareness of the critical issues facing the African elephant and the rhino. These events serve to keep political pressure on governments to provide solutions today and in the longterm for the survival of these two species.
Every 15 minutes an elephant is poached for its ivory and every 8 hours a rhino is killed for its horn. Ivory and rhino horn are sold illegaly to markets the world over including China, Vietnam, America and many more. Without intervention these amazing wildlife will disappear in the wild within our lifetime..
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