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Elephant Killings - We need volunteers to help us stop the slaughter
Volunteers…prevent the slaughter of elephants — and you don’t have to be in Virunga to help!
CLICK HERE to go to the Elephant Crisis Page and see how you can help.
I’m writing to ask for your help. Last week we suffered the loss of one or our elephants in the Mabenga area. This is extremely worrying because it could indicate the beginning of a major poaching crisis in that area. We have to act fast and vigorously to stop this crisis before it even begins and we really need your support for this.
This was a short film we took of one of our Mabenga elephants last year. The event reminds us how friendly and trusting they are, but also how incredibly vulnerable they are to poachers, and nothing short of 24 hour armed protection will keep them alive.
This may take some time...
There are about 80 elephants in the Mabenga area; it’s one of the park’s most important populations to have survived the war. We have received information that the people involved in the killing of the elephant are still in the area and we must deal with this problem. We will be putting together a team of ten rangers to specifically protect this area. We also need to build proper surveillance, elephant monitoring, intelligence gathering etc. For that reason, we want to set up an elephant protection unit as a long term solution to the poaching problem. Their job will be to provide 24 / 7 protection to the Mabenga elephants to avoid their possible extinction.
We need your help to set up this protection unit. The park has very limited resources, but we have to respond to killing incidences like the loss of our elephants last week. I would be very grateful for your thoughts on this and in particular if there is anyone who would be willing to volunteer their time to make this elephant anti-poaching unit a reality. I passionately believe that anybody anywhere in the world can make a profound difference to the future of the park. The kind of support that we need is for people to campaign on the behalf of the park, getting feedback from the rangers on the ground and raising support by communicating this to a community of supporters around the world. It would involve a few hours of voluntary work a week, and you will be working from your home but in close collaboration with my field team that will support your efforts with web support, information and ideas on mobilizing communities.
I hate to show this picture, but it’s important to realise just how awful elephant poaching is.
If there is anybody who feels they could help us with this campaign please do send us a message on [email protected], with some information about yourself. Please don’t hesitate if you have ideas on helping the elephants of Virunga.
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48 Responses to “Elephant Killings - We need volunteers to help us stop the slaughter”
Perhaps an idea to increase funding for the protection of elephants would be to seek out more institution donors. In particular, I am thinking that there could be zoos found that would be willing to help fund this new comprehensive elephant protection. There are so many large zoos in the United States and I notice only 2 U.S. zoos are listed on the institutional donor page. Perhaps the international community of Virunga supporters could inform there local zoos about this crisis and see if they would like to join as supporters. Even though Virunga is the greatest park in Africa, I think we would make a mistake to persume that the administrators of all these major zoos are familiar with Virunga and the crisis that it has faced. I am willing to volunteer. I think you have my email listed when I wrote this reply.
To start with you should create a separate donation category for the elephant poaching crisis. I’ll promise to spread the message through social media where I’m very active, but if you could send me more background info I’ll use time this coming weekend and try to think of something, which could help you to raise awareness and funds for your campaign.
Can’t promise that I’ll be able to invent anything major, but I’ve been professionally fundraising for a large environ org since 2006. We’ll have to do something to put a stop to this horrible poaching.
It would be important to know what kind of budget you need to have the field operations running. What is the cost of getting one ranger employed & equipped for the field work?
Reference to my previous comment. You should have my e-mail address in the donors list for the Gorilla.CD
Is it for ivory???
Why did they remove half the head?!
Can’t it be cut preventivement?
Great thoughts as usual, Pirjo. Thank you. I’ll be in touch via email to give you all the tools you need. Of course, I can do the same for anyone who would like to help. Just send an email to [email protected]!
Is it fir ivory? If so, how about a trial to de-tusk elephants
A method is here.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12723807
An international team would be required.
With international funding- see
http://www.elephantconservation.org/multinational-species-conservation-fund/
Or has this already been tried?
By the way, the trial would need to assess both the effects on poaching and on elephants’ ability to survive.
Let me know if I can help.
why cant the use of cameras be put in cameras dont take up much resources and human lives and are very useful in prosecutions if there was such a law there needs to be something there thats not human that can take down a enemy poacher rather than a human ranger people arent afraid of humans not even ones with guns now a camera it solves all problems without bloodshed
Just how cruel can we be !!!!! This makes me sick!!!
this picture is sick who would do such a thing
The more helpless the creature, the more that it is entitled to protection by man from the cruelty of man. Stop Elephant Killing!!
Cites lifetd the law in ivory hunting of the Elephants back in 2008. So what has this showed us ? It has shown what is going to happen to the Rhino.. A mass decrese in population that will soon see them on the endangered list.
You simply can not de-tusk an Elephant. The tusk is part of the Elephants tooth, there are HIGH risks to the Elephants life in this. From 1) infection 2) cardiac arrest as of the implications caused by sedating an animal so big 3) Elephants need there tusks in order to fend of predators.
We would propose now from our working with the Rhino on South Afican soil is to bring in anti poacher teams. A mass recruitment of ex military perosonel from around the world that have experience in working in the field and jungle environments.
Cites also need to be lobbied and the European Union to now ask them to place the Elephant on the endangered list as well as bringing the ban back in to place.
All trophy hunting permits are to be canceled as of immediate effect all trophy hunting banned.
Funding is a good way to help, BUT is it going to give them what they need NOW at this moment. Kenya needs to act fast or they will be seeing us in their country like we are in South Africa and many other lands.
My appeal is for Cites to focus immediately on this very serious and tragic situation.
Bring in mass troops immediately, as you would when a country is at war. For this IS war. This is a direct attack on our Country to our Wild Life and Heritage.
Cease all hunting and trophy hunting permits immediately.
Bring in the Death Penalty specially for Poachers, Gangs/Syndicates caught with their pants down on such an expedition.
Certainly a shoot to kill policy must be enacted with immediate effect.
If anything strengthen the ban on trade of horn of any kind.
CITES to announce these Animals as endangered NOW before they become extinct!
Up NON corrupt officials at all ports, both airports as well as shipping docks and borders.
With so many unemployed in a country such as South Africa, this would be tax payers money well worth spent.
I am appalled and would love to help in any way I can, please let me know if you need help advocating!!
that is wiced to do such a thing . pepple do this?
So, so sad, makes me want to cry. Why are humans such a wicked species? I have great memories of the Vurunga Park back in 1991, and I will return one day to make a difference.
Located this in IC Publications: The Democratic Republic of Congo’s famed Virunga National Park has deployed bloodhounds to track down elephant poachers, a park official said Monday.
“The first operation of the specially-trained bloodhounds was launched after a succession of elephant-poaching incidents,” LuAnne Cadd, the park’s public relations officer, told AFP.
“The operation lasted two days and resulted in an armed contact between park rangers and suspected elephant poachers followed by the recovery of an illegal cache of weapons,” she said.
Two bloodhounds tracked the poachers, following their scent over a distance of seven kilometres. There are a total of five bloodhounds deployed to fight poaching.
Cadd said 11 elephants were killed in 2011 in Virunga and three in January and February this year.
She said the European Union-backed canine project “will have a significant impact on the poaching problem in the park, particularly in protecting the vulnerable elephant population as demands for ivory increase worldwide.”
The dogs were trained for about a year in DR Congo by an expert working for a specialised facility in Switzerland.
The 7,800-square-kilometre (3,011-square-mile) park, created in 1925, is the oldest in Africa and was classified a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.
It is home to about a third of the world’s population of rare mountain gorillas and also has hippopotamuses and elephants.
So apart from the above maybe your focus should be on the Approved Oil exploration in THIS RESERVE that has just been signed.
we should not kill the elephants or any animals because animals is just like humans and elephants are living creatures to !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I am the lodge manager of Boubandjida National Park in Cameroon We just experiment a massive elephant slaugther and yes, It coul’d happen every where else.I ask for a pooling of our knowledges and informations about this kind of poaching for a long time without success. If this organized poaching by mafia networks and done by janjawite is not fought on an international level élphants populations and other rare species are compromised in the short term looking the effciency of these organizations on the ground..
I am oen for all kind of experience sharing…
Paul BOUR
People are sick who buy this and are just as guilty
As the poachers we need to raise money money
To protect this creatures. We also need to address this
To the china goverment as by far the demand is from
Their. All ivory should be banned full stop. These are
Beautiful creatures how can we sit here and let this
Happen? We need the whole world to take action now
Before its to late. I will do whatever I can to help. I hope
Other people will do the same, these animals are vulnerable and
If we can’t stop this then we won’t have these anymore
i feel soo very sad…this poor animals, what kind of beasts can do this sick things to the helpless animals ?
Please give me a suggestion what i can do.
My email: [email protected]
hijOs de puta para maltratar a lOs animaleS si sOn bnOs pOr k nO hacen esO cn sus viejas a ver
I am shocked and so sad to know this is happening. They are such beautiful animals and I am against all hunting and poaching.
If anyone has ideas on how to gain support successfully I would like to know so that I can do my bit. I liked the earlier idea on asking zoos to sponsor. This makes sense but also institutions would require substantial proof that the financial aid is going to the right people. How can we assure them of this and also how to tackle this on a larger scale.. Who do we lobby to?
This makes me extremely sad and also extremely angry how do you become a ranger in elephant protection i want to help on the front line to stop this slaughter
i think the photo os outrages i thinkit is disgusting
hoolly shit! that is so outrageous! i am from china by the way.
i feel so bad for this elephant
why do they do this
what terrible people
I m really sorry for your loss, it’s terrible that still today people kill animals for stupid reasons..I really would like to help you in this project but actually I don’t know how!..I think that you could ask for support also to international organizations that I m sure they would be happy to help you, maybe support could come from the brigitte bardot foundation,I read that it helps animals in danger all over the world..but help could come also from the local community there in congo, I m sure lots of people are devasteted by the terrible things that are happening..wish I can do more, I really hold all these causes in the deep of my heart.Thanks for listening to me and HOPE you will succeed in solving this problem very soon!
oh my god!!!
i think the photo os outrages
is it real?
I hope stop kill. They are such beautiful animals and I am against all hunting and poaching.
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, blood!
ESA GENTE NO SON SERES HUMANO YO PIENSO QUE SON UNA ABOMINACIÓN Y MAL FORMACION HUMANA Q NO TIENE NOMBRE.
GODADDY founder Bob Parsons also has a thirst for elephant blood. BOYCOTT GODADDY
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De-tusk.
Quitan y venden los colmillos.
Save the elephants.
Salve los elefantes tan maravillosos.
Analyse based on percentages.
How many live and how many die.
Analiza sobre los porcentages.
Cuantos viven y cuantos no viven.
El Zorro
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So typical of humans, we kill anything and everything without regard we think we are better than life yet really we are just apart of it. We think we are the most important thing in this world, only to find that we come from this earth and we will return to it. These poachers are supplying the people who want the tusk, for the most part religious organizations, and yet religion says it is peaceful and teachers love. I say we start a new fashion….. I say we start collecting these poachers hand for money, if I were to say I would pay 1,000 US dollars for each poachers hand would you do it? I don’t even ask you to kill the poacher, just his hands….. from fear we are driven, so fear it will breed
Sait décelasse de faire sa a tous bonne de bonne a rien
I want to go to Africa and become a ranger to help stop this. Who do I need to contact?
Can’t donations be put towards paying Rangers a decent wage or perhaps a bounty on Poachers heads. Not trying to sound disturbing but it is a solution.How much money is worth their life?
Hello Rob. Donations are used to augment ranger salaries (when directed by the donor). Since Emmanuel de Merode became Chief Warden of Virunga in 2008, rangers have been regularly paid and are now being given access to family health care. A fund for ranger widows (Fallen Rangers Fund) has also been set up to support the families of rangers killed. The park, with the help of its team of supporters around the world, is doing everything in its power to support the rangers. When it comes to protecting wildlife, it’s not a lack of dedication or pay, but rather the reality of not being able to be everywhere at once. Your call for supporting the rangers is appreciated. Thanks for your caring words, Rob.