An Ignoble Experiment: Speak up: Ban ivory around the world

Send your message: Ban ivory sales. Everywhere.

Every piece of ivory on the market represents a dead elephant:

Shut. Them. Down.

Send your message in support of closing all ivory markets before the deadline on Feb. 2.

Dear Friend of Wildlife,

Every day, elephants are slaughtered by poachers. Every day, traffickers smuggle and scheme to profit off of dead elephants.

The sad reality is that it often pays off for them. That's because in many countries around the world, it is still legal to buy and sell ivory, and disguising ivory as antique or otherwise legal isn't hard for traffickers.

Here's the truth: Legal ivory markets are a threat to elephants. That's why we need your help right now to shut them down.

Send your message: Ban ivory sales. Everywhere.

Last year, your activism pushed the Obama administration to take action to ban domestic ivory sales – a huge victory. Now, we need other countries to do the same.

Shutting down ivory markets is critical to our strategy to stop the poaching crisis that's killing an estimated 96 elephants per day in Africa, and right now we have a unique opportunity to put ivory bans on the global agenda.

Until February 2, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service is taking public input on what proposals it will bring to the next meeting of governments who are a part of CITES – an international treaty that protects elephants, rhinos, and other endangered animals by regulating or banning their trade – and we need to make sure closing all ivory markets is on the list.

Tell the Fish and Wildlife Service: Put closing domestic ivory markets on the global agenda.

Thanks to your consistent activism, momentum for ivory bans is building. Not only will the U.S. market be closed soon, but China and Hong Kong have also said they will close their markets. Several African governments have asked that all CITES countries adopt a ban on domestic ivory sales.

But so far, the U.S. is undecided about putting domestic ivory bans on the CITES agenda – we need your help to make sure they do the right thing. The deadline to weigh in is February 2. Submit your comment in support of a global ivory ban now!

It's going to take every last one of us doing what we can to stop the killing, stop the trafficking, stop the demand, and save elephants.

Thank you for doing your part today, and for everything you do.

Sincerely,

Susan Lieberman, Ph.D.