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One of the key asks for GMFER2019 will be to urge our CITES delegates to vote at CoP18 for maximum protections for endangered species (vote for all uplist proposals), and to reject proposals to reopen ivory trade in southern African countries, trophy hunt elephants and downlist endangered species. We suggest event organizers include these calls to primary CITES representatives as a key ask of their event this year, as well as calling for a ban on the import of hunting trophies of endangered species.

Kitty Block, president of Humane Society International, said: "Every single day, human-induced habitat loss, poaching, commercial trade and climate change are pushing more of our planet's precious wild species towards extinction. We can no longer afford any complacency when it comes to saving wild animal species threatened by over-exploitation, and so as we welcome CITES proposals to establish new or increased protections, we urge nations to ensure that species conservation is approached as a necessity not a luxury, with pro-active trade restrictions imposed long before a species is at the extinction precipice.

"With ivory traffickers exploiting the long-extinct mammoth so that they can further exploit imperilled elephants, the time is now for African and all other nations to unite in the fight to end the poaching epidemic and ensure all ivory markets are closed. Giraffes too need our urgent attention, having already disappeared from seven countries and now quietly slipping into extinction with the wild population at or just under 100,000. The time to act is now, before we lose them forever.”

Download instruction

To print postcards download the Zip folder, unzip folder and choose front card image to print. Then in printer settings choose 6x4 size and borderless print, and photo paper either matt or glossy. Print front card and best allow to dry for a few seconds depending on printer ink. Choose address side and print the same way, You can send to a CITES delegate in your country, but it would be good to send to all CITES addresses. If you find it easier to print a letter with the demands on please do so. Please use the image with addresses on and print front of envelopes The envelope images are named for each country with there address the same for the postcards.

The postcards or letters need to be mailed out to the CITES representatives and received by the 10th of May

The folder contains 2 front images for postcards, 16 back images with demand and country address, pdf business card template, and a poster image, and folder with 16 envelope image for printing, and a word doc and pdf letter for CITES ready for signing. Also you can find a automated email campain at march4elephantsandrhinos.org
Please we need to hit CITES with this as well.

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