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Environmental Crimes have to be considered severe

by | 31-05-2013 02:19 recommendations 0


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This is an article from the newspaper "LA HORA"  form Loja-Ecuador that really concern me because is an  article that it's about the illegal sell of the elephant tusk and the Rhino horn, and I want to share it because in my opinion it's a really severe problem and because of the day of the biodiversity, there  are lot people working in this business and there are also people that are keeping those tusks and horns waiting for the moment when where more expensive because of the reduce of this animals in the world, the positive thing is that ONU is searching actions to reduce the problem caused by the hunting of this animals, they said that they need that the sanctions  where more strong for the people that it's in this business, they also said that one reason for this can be that the sanctions are not strong in comparison  with the drugs business, or the illegal sell of weaponry.

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In the article says that the gram of the rhino horn its actual more expensive than the gram of cocaine or gold, the illegal commercial of wild fauna it's calculated that handle approximately 17.000 million of dollars a year, the kilogram of rhino horn it's in 80.000 dollars, the rhino hunting  have killed approximately two thousands of rhino  at the last two years and there are just 25.000 approximately of rhino in the world in 2010 approximately 7500 elephants have killed by the hunting looking for their tusks.

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In Asia is the higher demand of the horn and tusk of these animals because they believe in their medicine properties and also in a lot of countries they considerate like an economic status, so there is the problem, the people have to find others ways to have what the horn and tusk offer because these animals are in really severe problems there are a big reduction of this animals in the world and it's because of the consumerism and greed of the society, we have to start thinking in an ecological way, the nature have the same rights than the humans to live.  

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The only way to help these animals is make as young people that the persons change the manner to see the world, if one person starts to demand to the people to don't buy things made of horn or tusk it's not going to be a big change in the world but if all the young people that cares in the rights of the animals starts to do the same, then we are going to make a big change.

                                                                                                                                             

 
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6 Comments

  • says :
    Thank you for sharing.
    Posted 26-08-2013 20:35

  • Rohan Kapur says :
    Well shared
    Posted 05-06-2013 13:32

  • Aaditya Singh says :
    Sadly man's greed is the root cause of so many problems.
    Posted 05-06-2013 03:44

  • says :
    Thanks for sharing this. Please add the original link as well
    Posted 31-05-2013 08:44

  • says :
    7,500 elephants? It's unbelievable number. :-(

    Thank you for sharing, Jorge!!
    Posted 31-05-2013 08:18

  • Arushi Madan says :
    I was also very pained at heart when I knew about such practices. Thanks for sharing the concern.
    Posted 31-05-2013 03:40

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