Friday, October 2nd, Saturday, October 3rd and Sunday, October 4th, the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos will take place across the world. GMFER is a grassroots all-volunteer organization that works on behalf of earth’s last elephants and rhinos. The group advocates strategically to promote local and global awareness about the elephant and rhino crises, calling for governments to take immediate action to end poaching in range nations, and demanding an end to the ivory and rhino horn trade at all levels: locally, nationally and internationally
More than 100 cities from around the globe will participate in this march.
“We march for the dead, the butchered, and the vulnerable. We march for those alive and those not yet born. We march with the hope that a global movement, a people’s movement, can change the dynamic on behalf of the last sentient giants. We march to call for grass roots advocacy and traditional NGO models to complement one another. We march because we hope for a successful confluence of strategy and policy on behalf of earth’s wild giants. We march because we know that a mass movement of and by the people and for the non-human can change the world for animals. We march because extinction is a human rights issue, a civil rights issue and a social justice issue.” – #GMFER
Adam M. Roberts, CEO of Born Free USA/Foundation will be speaking about the plight of elephants and rhinos in Boston, MA on Saturday, October 3rd. He will also address the vitally-important bill pending in the Massachusetts legislature that would ban the sale of ivory and rhino horn. Roberts, an international expert on wildlife trade, will address the crowd on the Boston Common shortly after 11:00 AM.
According to Roberts, “Elephants and rhinos are the victims of an illegal wildlife trafficking enterprise that is more organized, militarized, and lucrative than ever before. An estimated 129,000 elephants have died at the hands of poachers since January 2012.
As documented in Born Free USA’s groundbreaking reports, Ivory’s Curse and Out of Africa, poaching is not only a wildlife conservation and animal welfare issue, but also is intrinsically linked to terrorist networks and global criminal syndicates that use bloody ivory money to fund their violent activities, threatening national security.”
“Rhinos are similarly suffering as casualties of the disturbingly high global demand for their horns. More than 1,200 black and white rhinos were killed in South Africa alone in 2014. Africa’s black rhinos in particular are critically endangered, with a population of fewer than 5,000. Only 3,000 one-horned rhinos remain in India and Nepal, and Southeast Asia’s Sumatran and Javan rhinos number only in the hundreds and tens, respectively,” Roberts explains.
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Never heard of it. I’m all for marches but do they accomplish anything in the end?
Norway has been subject to terrorist incidents in the past and the possible for terrorist incidents
remain.
Did you see how over a dozen of elephants were killed in Zimbabwe? Same place as Cecil the Lion.