{"id":16942,"date":"2014-07-20T07:35:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T07:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16942"},"modified":"2014-07-20T07:39:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T07:39:54","slug":"wild-elephants-and-their-ivory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/07\/wild-elephants-and-their-ivory\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Elephants and their Ivory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world has got a problem<\/p>\n<p>the emerging China trade<\/p>\n<p>as the poorerthere get richer<\/p>\n<p>Culture is displayed<\/p>\n<p>before them, and the Ivory<\/p>\n<p>becomes something to buy<\/p>\n<p>for its rarity and its luxury<\/p>\n<p>and as \u00a0status<\/p>\n<p>it is high<\/p>\n<p>many just divorce<\/p>\n<p>the aspects from the living beast<\/p>\n<p>they don&#8217;t consider animals rights<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s something they think of least<\/p>\n<p>from surveys conducted throughout China<\/p>\n<p>the ominous result<\/p>\n<p>was over 80% of them<\/p>\n<p>want Ivory, an insult<\/p>\n<p>to Elephants in so many ways<\/p>\n<p>because whatever countries do<\/p>\n<p>it appears that Chinese people<\/p>\n<p>have now \u00a0taken the view<\/p>\n<p>that that is what is wanted<\/p>\n<p>and the only way ahead<\/p>\n<p>is ban it altogether<\/p>\n<p>otherwise The Elephant&#8217;s \u00a0dead<\/p>\n<p>and in Europe too there are markets<\/p>\n<p>culture \u00a0blamed again<\/p>\n<p>on the face of it the Elephant is doomed<\/p>\n<p>to more deaths and pain<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>people do not care \u00a0a bit<\/p>\n<p>for \u00a0animals today<\/p>\n<p>as they gain some status<\/p>\n<p>in their lives<\/p>\n<p>they want to play<\/p>\n<p>own nice things<\/p>\n<p>like Ivory its what they feel<\/p>\n<p>is right<\/p>\n<p>Elephants have no chance<\/p>\n<p>despite their powerful might<\/p>\n<p>forceful and demanding<\/p>\n<p>unyielding and resolute<\/p>\n<p>but up against the poachers<\/p>\n<p>whose power is absolute<\/p>\n<p>they have no chance<\/p>\n<p>for money speaks<\/p>\n<p>the words are profit based<\/p>\n<p>its easy money for the few<\/p>\n<p>a factor to be faced<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>alienate the traders<\/p>\n<p>ban ivory world wide<\/p>\n<p>death sentences for all poachers<\/p>\n<p>try to turn the tide<\/p>\n<p>unless its at this level<\/p>\n<p>the elephant will be<\/p>\n<p>just a picture in a book<\/p>\n<p>like the mammoth was to me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world has got a problem the emerging China trade as the poorerthere get richer Culture is displayed before them, and the Ivory becomes something to buy for its rarity and its luxury and as \u00a0status it is high many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/07\/wild-elephants-and-their-ivory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16944,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942\/revisions\/16944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}