Action for Elephants UK will be holding a peaceful demonstration outside the Chinese Embassy in London on 25 January 2014. This demonstration will be conducted in a peaceful and respectful way towards China.
China is the world’s main consumer of ivory, with demand soaring in the last decade as more and more Chinese have acquired the means to buy it. The result of this escalating demand is a huge rise in poaching elephants for their tusks, to the point where the killing has reached unprecedented levels and threatens to wipe out elephants forever.
China have the ability and power to ban the trade in ivory, causing the demand for ivory to decline, giving elephants a fighting chance to recover in their numbers.
This event will be to welcome positive steps that China have taken in recent weeks and ask them to do more. To be world leaders in banning ivory and saving elephants.
Please join us on January 25th to add your voice at this event. We will provide placards that you can download and use on the day.
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Getting there – where and when
The closest underground station is Regent’s Park, about 8 minutes’ walk from the Embassy.
The demonstration will start at 11:00am. Everyone should start gathering at the embassy at 10:45am and we will remain there until 2:30pm.
Please wrap up warm; there are toilets and facilities close by for food and drinks.
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These details are copied (edited) from the official `event page’ for this protest, in order to give it more publicity..
You can join the group page – March for elephants uk at https://www.facebook.com/groups/626607120724176/
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-Mani Navasothy
(Pagan Frontiers of London)
Link (26 Jan’14) : Read my account of the Protest and check out some photos Kill the Ivory Trade, not the Elephants, cries of Action for Elephants Uk group at protest outside Chinese Embassy, London
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