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.... and at the end of the day, there would be only one person standing between the last elephant on earth and the attacker from a taker society. This last person would be me. But I don't want such situation to become reality, so I am standing together with many already now in harms way.
What is needed is PROTECTION of our world's denizens and nature as a whole from the misguided takers. Protection without IFs and BUTs. We have been patient for much too long and see that it is not getting better just with buzzwords and the fair-weather "conservationists", whom you don't see when the going gets tough. Then and there only the tough get going.
In this context I am also standing against the planned elephant culling in South-Africa and as a matter of fact against any and all killing of elephants, whose population in Africa has been killed down mostly by men (and only some few crazy trophy-hunting women) from 1,5 Million in 1972 to less than 500 Thousand today. If that would be figures resembling an ethnic minority of mankind, the case would be since long before an International Tribunal or the ICC. High time to protect every single elephant.
Every hour throughout the world, over 1600 people, most of them children, die from hunger and poverty-related diseases and millions of others struggle to survive without life's basic necessities of clean water, food, shelter, education and health care, while the current global military budget is costing approximately US$160 million dollars every hour.
In the same time global warming and climate changes are causing ecological disasters in many areas and already at least 15 of the essential 25 global ecosystems are seriously damaged. All figures concerning biodiversity, sustainability and happiness of life on earth are declining. This must stop, it must stop now and the trend must be reversed immediately - by all means and with top priority. We have to walk away from the policy of destruction, because it is also self-destruction.
Please join me at the frontlines: e-mail me via africanode [at] ecoterra.net directly
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You are amazing. Thanks for being, and for loving those sweet elephants... I have yet to see a free and joyful elephant on my travels. I deeply appreciate your work.
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Thankyou for the friend invite and thank you for the wonderful work that you do on behalf of the elephants and the rest of us.
Much kindness, Tashi |
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I love the picture! Skin on skin - every little change count, yet, I must admit not having much hope for 'humanity' - Gaia will continue...we, are a dying order...the elephants have much to teach us about 'dying'...are we listening...and if we did, maybe more would change!!! No change without dis-comfort...simplify, simplify, simplify...
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We all need to do what we can, about what we can, where we're at, with what we've got. Thanks for acting and being a voice for elephants. |
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thank you for your work.
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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.