- Target:
- Minister of Environmental Affairs: Bomo Edna Molewa
- Region:
- South Africa
- Website:
- www.esag.co.za
The world wide web is circulating information as stated below regarding your intentions:
“It has come to our attention that at a recent stakeholder meeting called by the Department of Environmental Affairs to discuss proposed amendments to the Elephant Norms and Standards, it became apparent that the Department appears to be intending to remove all welfare-based provisions relating to elephants.
The Department is essentially proposing that instead of addressing its shortcomings in enforcement and implementation, it will simply remove the pieces of the law that are being broken. No other concrete motivations have been provided.”
"The proposed alterations to the Norms and Standards could allow the removal of elephants from the wild for captivity, and allow elephants to be exported and imported out of and into our country, opening up an easy route to launder and trade with these animals. There is extensive cruelty involved with the training methods used to dominate and break elephants for elephant-back riding, and this cannot be allowed or supported."
Please may we as South Africans and fellow lovers of nature humbly ask you as the South African Ministry of Environmental Affairs team not to amend the Norms and Standards created in 2008 to protect South Africa's largest majestic land mammal, the Elephant.
Consider your purpose, your position and what you were employed for... to protect!!! You can either earn the respect worldwide, proving to the world South Africa’s government can be just, by fighting for the rights of these elephants, instead of what the world will label as ‘exploitation' of yet another government scheme.
"These Norms and Standards were created in 2008 with the founding principles of preventing new elephants from undergoing the cruelty associated with the captive industry, and protection of biodiversity in wild areas where elephants are kept. We believe that these principles must be upheld and not eroded by the interests of a few economically-invested stakeholders."
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The Fight for the Rights of South Africa's Wild Elephants petition to Minister of Environmental Affairs: Bomo Edna Molewa was written by Natalie Fourie and is in the category Animal Rights at GoPetition.