Another dose of bad news … and I am told this is only the tip
of a very large iceberg …
Will CHINA never stop plundering the world’s wildlife?
Do you want to see baby elephants shipped all the way to China to be cruelly treated, regularly abused, and commercially exploited?
If you are a scientist, individual NGO or NGO organisation with an interest in elephants, are you going to pull out all the stops to stop these elephants being exported? If not you, who will? If not now, when will you?
If you seen in our newsletters the cruel treatment inflicted on chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and even in Chinese zoos, you can’t standby and do nothing now – can you? Keep in mind – the Chinese CITES Management Authority are rubber stamping such imports…..just as they did with all those great apes – many of which are now dead
"To say nothing, to do nothing, stops nothing"
Zimbabwe’s baby elephants getting sold to China zoos: activists
Sapa | 28 November, 2014 14:20
Two African elephant calves. ( NA comment: Baby elephants like these are being rounded up to be
sold to Chinese zoos and circuses. Are you go to do anything to help save them from a life of slavery?)
Image by: Gallo Images/ Thinkstock
Animals are getting stolen from Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, and are ending up in China’s zoos according to The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force.
The group says that they first highlighted this issue when they encountered an Australian and Zimbabwean looking to earmark elephants in Hwange for Chinese zoos.
Now they claim that tourists are witnessing blatant live captures of baby elephants. They are then taken to Mtshibi Capture Unit about 7 kilometres from Hwange’s Main Camp.
"So far 34 baby elephants between the ages of 2 ½ and 5 years old, 7 lions and about 10 sable antelope have been rounded up for shipping but investigators were not allowed to get close enough to the compound to photograph as security there has become extremely tight," the group claims in a media statement.
These are then trucked to Maputo in Mozambique, where they begin their arduous trip to China.
In 2013 three young elephants were shipped to China, only to be exposed to freezing weather conditions and confinement resulting in the death of one, and the other two getting sick.
China and the ivory trade
Last year poachers in Hwange National Park started poisoning water holes with cyanide in order to kill elephants for their tusks.
According to a report in December, more than 300 elephants fell victim to this.
The Environmental Investigation Agency issued a report earlier this month that found when Chinese government and business delegations arrived in China prices on the local ivory market doubled to $700 (or R7,727) a kilo during their visit.
"The [delegation]… used the opportunity to procure such a large amount of ivory that local prices increased," the report says according to the BBC.
"When your president [Xi Jinping] was here… many kilos go out… many kilos. Half of his plane go with that," one of the traders told EI http://world.einnews.com/article__detail/236993059?lcode=sMqsa0jdrmsk4ziH7pNBzNYfguUYalDD4Xg-V14_P_k%3DvA
