Your gift can help fund investigations into wildlife trafficking and new tools to help law I want 2012 to be the best year: a year when caringįriends like you support our efforts and provide the funding In addition to our incredible work with rhinos, we’re also working to conserve tigers last year’s population census in India showedĪn increase in the number of wild tigers! Most effective conservation organizations working in the world today. Live birds are being stolenįrom the Amazon and sold by bird dealers here in the U.S.Īs a WWF member, you support the efforts of one of the Tigers areīeing killed for their skins, bones and organs. But if we can continueĪnd expand our efforts, through increased funding, then I believe there is hope for rhinos, as well as other species now facing poaching and trafficking threats.ĭonate to WWF and support our conservation efforts like stopping wildlife traffickers!Įlephants are being killed for their ivory. The threats to rhinos remain very real and extremely urgent. Increasing local and international law enforcement to stop the flow of rhino horn and other illegal wildlife trade items from Africa to other regions of the world as well as other efforts.Implanting microchips in rhinos’ horns, so that if they are killed we can use those chips to track the traffickers down and.Improving security monitoring to protect rhinos from poaching.So far WWF has helped move 120 rhinos to new homes in seven reserves. Using specially made leg harnessesĪnd heavy duty cables, we hoisted and airlifted 19 rhinos to
So together with our South African partners, we did But how do you move a rhino? You can’t put it in a jeep. One step in conserving rhinos is stopping poachers. Stop at nothing, and time could be running Three of the remaining five species of rhino are critically endangered- one illegally killed rhino is unacceptable!
Last year 333 rhinos were poached in South Africa. The illegal killing of rhinos for their horns threatens the world’s remaining rhinos. Please help get 2012, and all our anti-traffickingĮfforts, off to a great start by making your most Please make your most urgent and generous donation to WWF to support our global conservation efforts, including our critical Of the world’s most endangered wildlife could go extinct in the wild. If we let the poachers and traffickers have their way, I believe some And more threats than everīefore to some of the world’s most threatened and endangered wildlife. More criminal networks trafficking animals and body parts-such as elephant tusks and tiger skins.
You see, the problem is this: last year we saw more armed gangs killing wildlife-not just rhinos. Supported by generous WWF members like you, we used helicopters, powerful steelĬables-and a whole lot of care-to airlift rhinos to safety! Wildlife trafficking is one of the most serious threats facing wildlife! But together, we can help stop it.īelow, I describe a daring rhino rescue you would have been amazed-and proud-to see.
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