Petition and information about an appalling situation in Thailand. (WFFT = Wildlife Friends of Thailandi, a voluntary group working to rescue and rehabilitate animals from the pet and tourist trade.) (DNP = Thai government Department for National Parks)
Petition – Please sign - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/urgent-plea-for-rescued-thai-wildlife/ WFFT is a good organization that cares for injured, abused, and neglected animals. The DNP should also be doing this, but in this case it seems the DNP are taking revenge on WFFT since WFFT founder named 5 DNP officials for being responsible for the killings of 5 wild elephants earlier. Baby elephants bring in a lot of money for tourist shows. The breeding programs can’t produce the baby elephants fast enough to meet the demand, so poachers go and catch wild baby elephants (receiving about 100,000 baht for the job). When the wild baby is tranquilized, the mother and others tries to protect the baby and sometimes have to be killed to get rid of them. The baby is then taken away to an area near the Thai – Burma border to be trained (another HUGE form of animal cruelty. The training is sickening). Once trained the baby will be put in elephant camp and tourist shows for 1000’s of tourists to adore and have photos taken with it. Of course most tourists don’t realize all the terrible things they are supporting that happened to get that elephant there. The camps will say another elephant is the mother, but the truth is the real mother was killed in order to get the baby. There is BIG money involved in this as tourists all love to see a baby elephant. When the raid began the DNP accused WFFT of having illegal animals and demanded to see the paperwork for over 450+ animals. While printing out the paperwork for more than 2 hours non-stop the printer broke from overuse. 103 documents were still not printed. The DNP then stated that these 103 animals were illegal because there was no paperwork. A few days later it was printed, but now the DNP refuses to even look at it. Let’s pretend the DNP was right for a minute and that WFFT did have illegal animals. Is this the proper way of fixing it? Terrifying the animals, taking them out of their homes and putting them in tiny cages, showing up with 100’s of officers with weapons, spreading lies about WFFT, etc. This is far from the proper way of dealing with the situation, which leads me to believe once again that this is revenge by the DNP for speaking out about the elephant killings. Let’s stand up for the protection of animals. Let’s take a stand against political corruption and illegal wildlife trading. Please write to CNN, BBC, Thai news, Thai government, and ask them to cover this story. WFFT said the DNP showed up one day with Thai media but only let them hear DNP's side of the story and not report anything from WFFT. Please copy this and share on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Let the world know what is happening and that it must stop. -- ** Do your part to help the planet by not printing emails :-) Kerry Dyke MS Athletics Director / MS PE / ISB Environmental Coordinator International School Bangkok http://green-panthers.blogspot.com<http://green-panthers.blogspot.com/> http://inside.isb.ac.th/athletics/ms-athletics/ _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate
