STOP RHINO KILLING
- by: Francesco Nardelli
- recipient: USA President, EU President, CITES Secretary General
Rhinos are become today's victims of "killing fields". Poachers and traders syndicates, alike monstrous fundamentalist regimes, slaughter rhinos EVERY DAY, to feed the insatiable demand from Asian countries. The majority are White Rhinos, the species concentrated in South Africa, a country which refuses to totally ban their trade but fueling the macabre market of animal bodies parts. Alike regimes, the syndicates behind the massacre are moved by money (they even finance terrorists), superstition (the horns are considered magic concoctions) and bureaucrats corruption (a loophole in present legislation classify the South African White Rhino population in CITES Appendix 2, list of species subject to trading.)
Meanwhile, South Africa is hosting this year's all-important meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in September, putting that nation in an unusually strong position to push through such a disastrous proposal.
Let's put pressure on South Africa to halt rhino horns trade asking to UPGRADE South Africa White Rhino to CITES Appendix 1, list of fully protected species, as it is in all the other White Rhino host countries. If we're to end the brutal and destructive trade in rhino horn, we need to build a massive groundswell of international opposition strong enough to take on powerful landowners -- and the South African government -- to derail their dangerous plan before the CITES conference in September.
It is a step in the right direction which everyone of us can help to take through this petition.
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LOOKING FORWARD TO HEAR FROM YOU !
The President of United States of America
The European Commission President
The CITES Secretary General
Premised that:
Rhino horns stockpiles destruction does not seem to be an effective anti-poaching strategy, yet trading the horns by governments would, in a way, legitimize the trade of illegally obtained horns. For many economists, destroying a valuable resource is hard to justify and some, in the name of bias economic statistics and unrealistic solutions [e.g. price control], propose that Rhino horn trade should be legalized to save the five extant species. Divergent argument is that governments should have a contra attitude toward legalization of whatever [wildlife trading included] is harmful to society.
Particularly, it would be an offence to the many families that lost their dearest for Rhino protection.
Given that:
- Narco-Terror-Wildlife connection is a matter of facts. The illegal products that fund the attacks on civilized society also destabilize democracies across the globe, undermine culture and they all represent a clear and present danger to world’s security;
- The international response to the wildlife trafficking problem has been so far somehow predictable and based on defense rather than attack;
- The omni-present criminal organizations are always approaching people, recruiting using any mean;
- Legal trade of other wildlife products [e.g. ivory] has definitely proved to be a failure or even counterproductive.
A STRATEGY TO STOP RHINO POACHING
This petition is representing a factual step to initiate a major policy to close down the Rhino poaching. CITES to upgrade South African and Swaziland White rhino populations to Appendix I means to avoid any possible trading and close loopholes on jurisdictional grounds. The international community is looking for consistent, dynamic and timely leadership in going after the omnipresent criminal organizations that traffic in wildlife, by such means as:
- USA, EU and CITES to lead an International States Coalition [Viet Nam and China in primis], to stop the syndicates: poachers – middlemen – importers;
- International States Coalition to heavily sanction the offender Countries;
- International States Coalition to fund intelligence, repression and control, on the same management and financial scale like anti drugs trafficking and counter-terrorism Agencies.
The mission is to protect key habitats and Rhino populations long enough for generational attitudes to change in some Asian and other consuming countries.
We appeal each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to legalize Rhino horns trade and not to fall into the tempting, ill-fated and back firing trap to permit that deception.
Yours faithfully,
In 2004, Swaziland's White rhino population was transferred to Appendix II. At that time the population there numbered 60 individuals! Today's proposal is to permit a limited and regulated trade in White Rhino horn. Do you smell a dead rat? We can stop any trade, everywhere: upgrade all White Rhino populations to CITES APPENDIX I and close every loophole. Rhinos need few seconds of your time: just sign and share this petition.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/27/swaziland-acting-as-puppet-to-south-africa-in-bid-to-legalise-rhino-horn-trade
South Africa just lifted its domestic ban on the Rhino Horn Trade !
South Africa maintains an exception to CITES's rhino horn trade ban. The exception allows them to export live rhinos to "appropriate and acceptable destinations," an undefined phrase that stands as a potential loophole.
THE SOLUTION DOES EXISTS: SIGN TO UPGRADE WHITE RHINO TO CITES APPENDIX I !!!
Thank you so much for your invaluable support !
This week it was revealed that the decision to submit a rhino horn trade proposal to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has been in the National Treasury budget for the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA).
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