Petition to save elephants

CAIRO – 18 October 2017: One of nature’s oldest living animal species, elephants have stood the test of time, but will they survive humans?

According to Defenders’ website, by the beginning of the 20th century, a few million elephants lived in Africa, while a 100,000 lived in Asia; however, today, only around 450-700 thousand are left in Africa and around 35-40 thousand in Asia.

Around two weeks ago, a girl named Lucy Jane started a petition on the website Change.org to urge U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May to stop the evilness of the continued ivory poaching of elephants in the African continent.

Stating that up to 25,000 elephants are being killed annually for their tusks and that the U.K. PM must act to stop this, as it seriously endangers the species. Within two weeks, around 215,000 people signed her online petition, leaving comments expressing sadness and anger over what happens to these elephants.