Elephants poaching in tanzania on pbs right now

[hekimatele]

Documentary imeisha, watch yourself or read at the above link.
My conclusion, nchi hii haina mwenyewe.

Thanks Mr Nkrumah for your heart of sharing such important issues regarding our country and our system of leadership.

 

[hekimatele]

I followed the link and this is what I found.
Thank God for National Geographic.


Battle for the Elephants explores the brutal slaughter of African elephants for their tusks, fueled largely by China's demand for ivory.
The film tells the ultimate wildlife story - how the Earth's most charismatic and majestic land animal today faces market forces driving the value of its tusks to levels once reserved for precious metals. Journalists Bryan Christy and Aidan Hartley take viewers undercover as they investigate the criminal network behind ivory's supply and demand. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, one of the world's main ports for smuggled ivory, Hartley attempts to buy large quantities of tusks from poachers. In China, Christy explores the thriving industry of luxury goods made from ivory and the ancient cultural tradition of ivory carving.
The film is based in part on an article by Christy, published in the October 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine, titled 'Blood Ivory.'
Since the opening up of the Chinese market and the growth of its economy, ivory, once a precious material available only to the ruling elite, has become increasingly available to the growing Chinese middle class. The film traces the ivory trade and its impact on Africa's elephant population over the course of the past two centuries. In 1800, an estimated 20 million elephants lived in Africa. With the rise of industrialization and the mass production of items made from ivory, such as combs, billiard balls and piano keys, the elephant population was cut in half. By 1913, as the United States consumed more than 200 tons of ivory a year, only 10 million elephants remained. Post-war ivory consumption continued, and by 1989 the elephant population was reduced to 600,000.

J.J. Kelley
Scientist Soila Sayialel looks on at Amboseli National Park, Kenya.
A worldwide ban on ivory sales in 1989 led to a rebound in the population, to about 1 million. But in 1999 and 2008, due to pressure from countries in Asia and southern Africa, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) allowed two sanctioned sales of ivory.
According to Christy, these two sales gave cover to ivory smugglers in China, and the underground market exploded. According to CITES, 25,000 elephants were killed in Africa last year, though other observers say it could be many more. In Tanzania alone, poachers kill 30 elephants a day. The International Fund for Animal Welfare estimates that 84 percent of the ivory sold in China is illegal.
Battle for the Elephants features those in Africa on the frontlines studying elephant behavior and leading the deadly fight to protect the animals from armed poachers. At the Amboseli Trust for Elephants in Kenya, Deputy Director Soila Sayialel explains how the elephants' highly evolved society, keen intelligence and ability to communicate across vast distances and to love, remember and even to mourn, are far more complex than ever imagined. She also describes how the rise of poaching has caused disturbing changes in elephant behavior, including increased agitation, stress and aggression in the presence of humans.

John Heminway
Producer J.J. Kelley captures Soila Sayialel at Amboseli National Park, Kenya.
Hartley meets with Khamis Kagasheki, minister of natural resources in Tanzania, which stores the world's largest stockpile of elephant tusks in the world - 90 metric tons. Kagasheki agrees to allow Hartley and the camera crew to take the first-ever footage of the vast warehouse that stores thousands of tusks, valued at $50 million.
Unlike Kenya, Tanzania, one of the poorest countries in the world, has not agreed to burn its stockpile, arguing that the money from a sale could support conservation efforts. An official says that if an international agency were to buy the tusks with the intention of burning them, they would eagerly sell them.
Observing a master carver in China painstakingly create a priceless piece of art from ivory, Christy acknowledges the exquisite beauty of the craft and the deep importance of ivory in Chinese culture and tradition. However, he poses the central question: "Is this craft or this species more valuable?"

 

[SPANERBOY UDZUNGWA]

mnyika alisema kikwete ni dhaifu wakamfukuza bungeni .tunapomuweka mwizi ikulu tunategemea nini? Inauma sana kwasa abu watoto wetu hawatakuja kuwaona tembo .asante sana kichwa nazi kikwete

 

[Ulukolokwitanga]

kama waandishi wanakamata pembe kirahisi hivi, inakuaje usalama wa taifa ????

Hii biashara inafanywa na wakubwa ndugu hao usalama wa taifa hawawezi kuthubutu kuingilia kwa kuwa watakuwa wanaingilia maslahi ya watu. Kama Katibu Mkuu wa Chama Adul Kinana amekiri wazi kuwa ni meli zake ndio huwa zinasafirisha pembe kwenda China lakini hakuna hata mwanausalama aliyewahi kumhoji unategemea nini? Jamaa ndio kwanza akapandishwa na cheo kuwa katibu mkuu wa chama. Hii nchi imeisha mkuu, wanatumaliza wakubwa wenyewe. Hao tembo 3000 wanaouliwa kila mwaka ni kukusanya hela za kampeni za CCM 2015

 

[bollywood]

For those with WEB access or in US watch PBs right now they are showing a documentary on killing elephants on TZ right now.

Battle for the Elephants : PBS


Video: Preview | Watch Battle for the Elephants Online | PBS Video

Why should people care about elephants? They destroy crops, they can't be consumed as food. Might as well let the Chinese have their tusks. This documentary sounds like a propaganda piece against the Chinese. Let people poach elephants and sell their tasks to make money. If we run out of elephants, we go to rhinos. It is really not the end of the world. Stop the phony outrage.

 

[Bukyanagandi]

Taifa lisipokuwa makini, Wachina watamaliza kila kitu - sio Tembo tu hata ukataji wa miti/magogo na kuyasafirisha kwenda kwao- cha ajabu nchini Uchina wanajali sana mali asili zao hawakati miti ovyo - lakini wakija Africa wakakutana na waswahili majangili wa kutupwa na wasio jali mali asili za Kiafrica basi mwisho wa siku Taifa litahambulia kuvuna mabua.

 

[LEE VAN CLEEF]

hiyo inatafutwa hela ya uchaguzi 2015

 

[hekimatele]

hiyo inatafutwa hela ya uchaguzi 2015

Kumbe kuna mbinu nyingi za wenzetu kutafuta hela za uchaguzi eh?

 

[Jasusi]

Kwame Nkrumah,
Thanks for this thread. I just finished watching the PBS program. It is a shame that we have people who say we should finish off the elephants because they destroy crops. It is a shame!

 

[Kwame Nkrumah]

Kwame Nkrumah,
Thanks for this thread. I just finished watching the PBS program. It is a shame that we have people who say we should finish off the elephants because they destroy crops. It is a shame!

That's how narrow minds think Jasusi. Tuna safari ndefu mbele yetu, tuendelee kuwaelimisha,usikate tamaa mkuu.