A Magnificent African Elephant Is Killed Every Fifteen Minutes...

Every fifteen minutes a magnificent African elephant is killed by poachers for its ivory.
About thirty six thousand of these beautiful creatures were killed in Africa last year despite a ban on ivory.
Elephants have thrived for fifty million years in the forests and grasslands of Africa but says conservationist Dr Dame Daphene Sheldrick of The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, in as little as twelve years time, there may be no elephants left in Africa.
There's more about this terrible situation here.
Imagine, no elephants left in Africa because of man's greed.
Greed. It's destroying our world...  

China Tells The World A Whopping Big Fish Tale...

How do you like this whopper of a fish tale.
China tells the world through the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation that their distant water fishing fleet catch around 368,000 tons of fish annually.
In actual fact say the University of British Columbia who've just completed research into international fishing, China takes about 4.6 million tons, plundering the waters of around ninety countries of their fish resources and about $11.5 billion worth of fish. Nobody really knows how much they take or what arrangements they have with other countries but most of China's catch is taken from the waters around West Africa where so many of that continents poor people depend on their food being harvested from the sea.
China doesn't take all its catch home.
An unspecified amount is sold locally but whatever is going on, China's catch is a huge twelve times larger than they are admitting to.
It's greed on a grand scale.
And greed is destroying our world...

Celebrating The Magnificent Elephant...

I'd like to celebrate the Elephant today
for no other reason than they are the most magnificent of living land mammals.
Unfortunately as you are reading this, the many who see them purely as objects for financial gain are killing them as they always have,
for their ivory.
It's almost impossible to stop the carnage,
And it's not possible it seems
to curb man's insatiable greed.
But it is possible for us today to celebrate the existence of these wonderful creatures.
While we still can...