#NatureNotMoney

#CITESCoP19

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#1

.@EU_Commission plans to vote against #Appendix1 for African elephants. Live capture and trade? Who cares? The #EU has been dazzled by corrupt governments + trophy hunters. #NatureNotMoney #CITESCoP19. Tweet with us: https://sites.google.com/view/naturenotmoney-citescop19/home

#2

.@EU_Commission @TimmermansEU @vonderleyen @KadriSimson @EU_ENV @VSinkevicius @florikafink "..trophy hunting consolidates elite recreational access to land whilst removing rights of & stewardship by local peoples." #NatureNotMoney #CITESCoP19 #Appendix1 http://bit.ly/3AmGhT3

#3

Is @africa_resource continuing to cover for those in power under the guise of supporting rural communities? http://bit.ly/3tUQHpH @vonderleyen @EU_Commission not everything that glitters is gold. Virtue signaling can kill. #NatureNotMoney. Vote for #Appendix1 #CITESCoP19

#4

.@vonderleyen @EU_Commission @EU_ENV “It's time to accept that #elephants, like us, are empathetic beings; help each other in distress, grieve for their dead, & feel the same emotions as each other—just like us." http://bit.ly/3V0iD6Q #NatureNotMoney #Appendix1 #CITESCoP19

#5

"they will not pass this way during the daylight hours". @IUCN has designated African #elephant species as endangered and critically endangered. They deserve life. They deserve #Appendix1. #NatureNotMoney #CITESCoP19 http://bit.ly/3UL56QL @VSinkevicius @EU_ENV @EU_Commission

#6

"In March 2022, a group of wild Namibian #elephants landed in the UAE ... the sale serves only to simulate an African safari experience in Emirati zoos with no benefit for the animals and Namibian locals." #Appendix1 #NatureNotMoney #CITESCoP19 http://bit.ly/3hPAGhS @EU_ENV

#7

.@EU_Commission @TimmermansEU @vonderleyen @KadriSimson @EU_ENV @VSinkevicius @florikafink Captured wild #elephants will remain in captivity for the rest of their lives. #NatureNotMoney #Appendix1 #CITESCoP19. https://twitter.com/EleRhinoMarch/status/1593190582490259456/photo/1. Reject Wild Capture and Trade.

#8

.@EU_Commission @TimmermansEU @vonderleyen @KadriSimson @EU_ENV @VSinkevicius @florikafink European #bison hunted to ~extinction, until conservationists intervened. Will the African #elephant face a similar fate? http://bit.ly/3V2Aie7 #NatureNotMoney #CITESCoP19 #Appendix1

#9

.@EU_Commission @TimmermansEU @vonderleyen @KadriSimson @EU_ENV @VSinkevicius @florikafink, what's next? Lifting the ban on ivory trade? Surprise us. Refrain from aligning yourself with corruption. Vote for #Appendix1 #CITESCoP19 #NatureNotMoney http://bit.ly/3TLedj4

#10

".. the governments of southern Africa, and the former national liberation movements of Angola, Namibia, SA, Zim and Angola - represent a regional syndicate of First Family mafias" -Grobler. http://bit.ly/3AqJkK3 #NatureNotMoney #CITESCoP19 #Appendix1 @EU_Commission @EU_ENV

#11

.@EU_Commission @TimmermansEU @vonderleyen @KadriSimson @EU_ENV @VSinkevicius @florikafink "Confiscated ivory from elephants killed > 30 years ago has turned up in recent raids, say scientists." http://bit.ly/3EGl1dQ Reject corruption. #NatureNotMoney #CITESCoP19 #Appendix1

#12

"Why are people in Nyae Nyae still as poor and hungry as ever?" Is trophy hunting sustainable #NatureNotMoney #CITESCoP19 #Appendix1 for all African elephants. http://bit.ly/3GmfVVa @EU_Commission @EU_Commission @TimmermansEU @vonderleyen @KadriSimson @EU_ENV @VSinkevicius

#13

"When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money." @EU_Commission @TimmermansEU @vonderleyen @KadriSimson @EU_ENV @VSinkevicius @florikafink Vote for #elephants. #Appendix1 #CITESCoP19 @BBCEarth