Community Quote by Ali Bongo Ondimba

Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize…

— Li Bingbing

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

— Yao Ming

I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade, despite an…

— Ian Somerhalder

Seized ivory stocks around Africa are recycled back into illegal trade due to corruption. Ivory stocks should be burnt together with the hopes of…

— Ofir Drori

Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living…

— Virginia McKenna

Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and…

— Ofir Drori

Ivory is quickly becoming the new blood diamond of Africa and one that fuels militia battles. Some of the most notorious armed groups on…

— Ben Fogle

We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to go around.…

— Allen Crawford

Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be…

— Yaya Toure

My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.

— Yaya Toure

Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there…

— Richard Leakey

Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing…

— Mark Shand