"Increased Demand for Ivory Threatens Elephant Survival"

[FourScore]

By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 27, 2007; Page A10

"An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study released yesterday estimates that as many as 23,000 of the animals were slaughtered last year alone..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/26/AR2007022600932.html?nav=hcmodule

[seriousstan]

1. How ironic, the Asians will kill off both the land and the sea,

Yet we are bitched at for not signing the Kyoto treaty.

[Stargazer99]

2. Anything for a buck and that is why our planet is in trouble now

If we had half the respect for our earth like many of the American Indians had, maybe mother earth could survive. But, no we as a culture worship mammon in the form of capitalism, Godless and heartless principle a useful tool of corporations.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

3. The survival of all species is at risk.

Walk me out in the morning dew