Please share this EAL’s campaign, the first of this kind!
Poor villagers are pushed into elephant poaching and crime by greedy businessmen, traders and Chinese/Arab traffickers.
Yes, powerful criminal groups are involved, but locally in Africa this “Ivory Addiction” is often killing people, destroying families and leaving orphans behind.
At the link below an example from Uganda, where people are being used due to their extreme poverty and easily fall prey to little money.
The Chinese ivory consumers are at the end of this ignoble criminal chain, and WE WILL bust them!
Photo: Livingstone Kidega