Ivory consumption around the world is not abating. But it will have to pretty soon, if the a recent census of the elephant population in the wild is accurate. There will soon be no more elephants. According to the Great Elephant Census, Africa’s savannah elephant population is just 352,271 animals in the countries surveyed. This is far lower than previous estimates. Advocate and noted actress Carolyn Hennesy says we don’t have to look far to find the people using ivory products.
“The United States is the second largest culprit of that. The Asian countries, China, Southeast Asia, North Asia, South Asia, they are they are largest importers of ivory.”
Hennesy is backing a three-pronged solution.
“We have to try and get people to not want to buy ivory… we also have to, at some point, defeat all the Middle East terrorist groups: ISIS, ISIL, if you want to call it that, Hamas, Al Qaeda, because they’re out there, they’re getting ivory from poachers and then reselling it for guns …The third thing that we have to do, and this is something everybody can do, is stop listening to the activists who tell you to turn your back on your local zoo, because your local zoo .. they are working their heinies off to protect these animals.”
Hennesy was a guest on 790 KABC’s McIntyre in the Morning Show with Doug McIntyre and Terri-Rae Elmer.
