#StopSlaughter

Hi loves, hope you are all well. I wanted to go with something different today. You all know I only post/review cruelty free products and I'm a huge animal lover. There has been a poaching crisis going on for some time now and itv news dedicated a full half hour to it yesterday and what I seen quite frankly disgusted me to the very core! You guys stand with me on these matters and always ask for more cruelty free posts so I want to dedicate this to the poaching crisis for those who may or may not know about it. These are my own views..

I'm not going to bombard you with the pictures of how cruel and inhumane these people are, but you really do need to see these images to understand how terrible the matter is. Below is a room, filled from floor to ceiling, of elephant tusks. To think of the massacre that went on for these poor animals to be stripped of a body part and for what, ivory?! There are people in the world who need blood, kidney and liver transplants to name a few. This doesn't mean these people hold you down and rip you of your organs! That is exactly what is happening to these innocent creatures! There is 30-40 thousand elephants killed each year for their tusks, what an absolute disgrace. These animals don't bother us, they live out in the wild and go about their business. Baby's watch their mothers being ripped apart by poachers only to face the same fatality. Do these people not think animals have feelings?! Poachers kill these animals for the pay off, they don't think for a second what it is doing to our world. There might be times when elephants have killed humans for whatever reason, but when they are left alone, they do no harm to anyone. Every 15 minutes, an elephant is killed by a poacher, every 15 minutes!! If these animals were wiping us out as quick, I'm sure these poachers would have a different outlook.

There are two different specie of  African Rhino - black and white. Only 5,000 black African rhinos remain on this earth according to WWF and are critically endangered, 20,000 white rhino left. All these poachers want is the pay off from the black market. Rhino horn is said to be more valuable by weight than gold, diamonds and cocaine. Is that how sad the human race has become, more interested in money than lives?? These people will soon learn there is far more to life than money, its so very sad. Asian countries also use powdered horn for medicines and it is also seen as a status symbol. There is nothing that can justify this, taking life's and claiming to benefit others. I understand some villages struggle with these animals as they eat their crops, take their water etc, but leave it to the professionals who can safely move these animals and help the matter for both parties. There was a time when humans depended on these animals to get about with day to day life. Now that money is involved, it all seems to be forgotten. Think of when you take your children to the zoo or even yourself visiting one as a child. It's simply amazing to see these creatures in their natural habitat and it's such a beautiful sight for everyone. Would you take your kids to see these animals being slaughtered?? We have 5-10 years to save the rhino, it needs to be done! It's not just happening with the elephants and rhino's, this is happening with many species. How many of you remember last year when Cecil the lion fell to poachers? This animal was the biggest attraction at Hwange National Park and was being studied by the University of Oxford. An innocent, beautiful animal that brought nobody any harm, killed by a dentist for what?! Satisfaction? In my opinion, these poachers should face the same outcome they impose on these animals.

Animals become a part of the family, we love them just like our own. Could you imagine your pet being killed for its fur or for one of its body parts? Just because these animals are in the wild, doesn't mean we should stop caring for them. If it keeps going this way, these beautiful animals will be extinct. Is this what we want? These poachers need to be stopped and there are people out there trying to do this. The IAPF (international anti-poaching foundation) amongst others are putting a stop to these people. We need to get behind them and save these animals. It wasn't acceptable when Hitler tried to wipe out Jewish people, so it shouldn't be acceptable to wipe out these animals. We need to start looking at these animals as equals. Human or animal, nobody should decide wether we should live or not. People are jailed and even sentenced to death themselves for killing other humans, these animals deserve the exact same justice. Please do your research and look into these foundations. I will link some below. We all need to spread this awareness and put a stop to this.

It's a bit of a downer post I know, but it needs to be said. Thank you to all my animal loving readers who always request more friendly and inspirational posts. I hope this post has struck a chord within you all to realise the damage these people are doing. As always get in touch with what you want to see, I've got your style steals coming tomorrow. Until next time..

Kx

Inquiries/Collabs/Email - kerryobx@hotmail.com

http://www.iapf.org/

http://www.bornfree.org.uk/campaigns/elephants/

https://www.savetherhino.org/our_work/what_we_do/anti-poaching