The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) launched a global petition campaign yesterday, aimed at putting pressure on the Thai government to ban the ivory trade within its borders.
In particular, the petition called on Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to ban the trade in advance of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which will be held in Bangkok in early March.
According to the WWF: “The scale of illicit activity is staggering in places like Thailand. Poachers and organized crime syndicates there are making millions of dollars a year, turning this southeast Asian nation into the largest unregulated ivory market in the world.”
The WWF claims that African ivory is commonly sold within Thailand, where it masquerades as domestic, Thai ivory, the sale of which is legal according to local conventions.
Those interested in joining the petition campaign are invited to do some clicking right here.
