Make the Ban on Ivory Sales Permanent

Go to Care2 Petition Site to sign the petition urging the Secretary General to help enforce and permanently ban elephant poaching and ivory trade. This endangered species, a magnificent group of animals, feeling and compassionate beings who for their families and their young. Their habitat is already dwindling in the wild. When they are killed they die slowly and since they are large creatures, they suffer slowly and immensely to death, and all for the little bit of tusk so we can make “exotic jewelry”.  The rest of the animal is discard and left to rot.

It has been documented that the families of the downed elephant often lingers in sadness for hours, even days, mourning the loss of their family member. Read this article here to learn more.  Please sign the petition today and get your message across!

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The Ugliness of the Circus

When I was a little kid, my summer camp instructor took us to the circus. I was overjoyed at seeing all the acrobats do all these amazing stunts. The show was full of animals and they performed gloriously at the snap of a finger, and I thought how wonderful it all was. I thought they were so obedient and had wondered if I could get my pets to do tricks too. Now that I’ve grown up I have come to the horrific conclusion that not only is animal performance unnatural, it is extremely cruel.

Elephants are captured in the wild either from Africa, Thailand or India, usually as infants kidnapped from their herd, and shipped back to our country to endure long, painful lives in chains. They are often beaten with bull hooks and starved when they don’t obey their handlers. Along with them, other animals such as bears, tigers, monkeys are forced to travel long hours, wear uncomfortable costumes, eat poor diets and abused in some way in order to perform tricks over and over again. Have you ever heard in the news where elephants or tigers that suddenly went crazy on their masters, even killing some of them, in order to escape? They are disheartened, sick, and hopeless creatures, living in fear each day for the rest of their lives.

Kindly consider this the next time you want to bring your kid to the circus. Do you want you child to learn that it is okay to treat animals in such a way for the sake of entertainment? Go see Cirque De Soleil, a people-only circus, among many nowadays which are all amazing. Boycott Ringling and Barneys- they are closely watched by PETA and many animal welfare organizations. Visit Performing Animals Welfare Society and learn more about the subject or make a donation!

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