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[ [link removed] ]Close up of a herd of elephants walking through the savanna. Two adult
elephants and three young elephants are visible.

John,

Elephants are super smart – as close to humans as apes, yet we’re
literally killing them to extinction.

Poachers are murdering dozens of elephants a day, sometimes cutting their
faces off with machetes while they are still alive – just to sell ivory
trinkets.

It’s heartbreaking. Elephants understand what is happening to them and
their families, they even identify bones and spend hours crying over them.
Poaching is so emotionally devastating that it can take a herd 20 years to
recover!

Their biggest hope for survival has been a global ivory ban that for over
35 years has saved countless elephants from this gruesome fate – poaching
rates are still dropping. Yet governments like Japan and South Africa want
to overturn the ban!

World leaders will soon gather at the Endangered Species Convention and
the ivory ban is on the agenda. To make sure it’s kept in place, we need
to get moving now to build a massive wave of public pressure and show them
that millions want to protect elephants. From lobbying decision-makers to
polling and hard-hitting ads to backing ranger protection programmes –
together we can tip the balance to give these intelligent creatures a
chance.

A legal ivory trade could wipe out endangered populations forever. Can you
help us save them – and continue our work to protect all creatures big or
small?



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These highly intelligent, social and sensitive creatures form lifelong
family bonds – elephants even act as social "influencers" in their
tight-knit communities! They’re absolutely critical to maintaining a
healthy ecosystem for countless other species too, but their numbers are
plummeting fast.

Already 20,000 of them are killed each year by illegal poachers, and a new
surge in demand for their tusks to make art and jewellery is quickly
pushing these majestic animals to the brink of extinction. 90% of their
populations have been killed off!

The global ivory trade ban is keeping elephants from disappearing
altogether. The clock is against us at the current rate of killing…if the
ban disappears, in little more than a decade, there may be no wild
elephants, only graves.

The good news is that West and Central African countries, which are home
to the majority of African forest elephant populations, are in favor of
keeping the ban in place.

It’s South Africa and Japan that want to overturn the ban and legalize the
ivory trade – to boost income for conservation initiatives of all reasons!
Instead of enabling a legal ivory trade, conservation efforts should be
going towards protecting endangered elephant populations, tackling habitat
loss and planning for human and elephant co-existence. These solutions
would also provide jobs for locals and create sustainable tourism
opportunities.

The upcoming Endangered Species Convention is the perfect moment to show
them that millions of us want to protect elephants and keep the ivory ban
in place for good. With enough of us chipping in we can make it happen,
running the right pressure tactics when needed to win – and keep up the
pressure to protect wildlife everywhere.

We’ve stopped this type of cruelty before – let’s do it again and protect
the world’s last elephants before it’s too late. Can you chip in?



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Your donation will help power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting for
people and the planet.



  Thanks for all that you do,  
Yasmin, Danny, Miriam, and the Ekō team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]Protect elephants: keep global ivory ban! Ekō

[ [link removed] ]Wildlife crime crackdown in jeopardy worldwide after US funding
cuts Mongabay 22 May 2025

[ [link removed] ]Consensus on ivory trade at the forthcoming CITES CoP20 summit unlikely
due to competing interests Environmental Investigation Agency 14 April
2025

 

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