Post by: nastybynature on August 05, 2015, 12:26:48 PM
Petitioning South African Airways US and 3 others
Tell South African Airways to stop shipping slaughtered wildlife trophies
Regina Fugate Cape Town, South Africa
Endangered African animals such as the rhino, elephant, leopard, and lions are being hunted and poached to extinction. As the national carrier, South African Airways has a moral obligation to safeguard these precious animals, but it recently went back on its commitment to ban transport of these trophy animals. Please sign my petition asking South African Airways to stop supporting wildlife slaughter by trophy hunters.
After Cecil the lion was killed in Zimbabwe, many airlines including Delta woke up and realized it's bad business and poor conservation policy to support the slaughter of some of the most incredible wild animals on the planet -- Delta, United, Virgin, British Airways, Emirates, and many other airlines now have global bans on transport of the Big 5 (lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo).
As someone with a passion for wildlife photography and who lives in South Africa, I can tell you photography tourism brings more income to the lodges, its surrounding communities, and South African Airways, as the same animals are being photographed, over and over again. Wealthy trophy hunters are exploiting Africa's animals in a cruel, shameful way!
Once an animal is dead, it's gone. One by one they will disappear if the hunting continues, and South African Airways is enabling trophy hunters to slaughter these animals despite global criticism.
Other airlines have listened to customers. We can make this change if we work together to show South African Airways it's bad business to ship slaughtered wildlife.
Please sign my petition asking South African Airways to join other airlines who commit to stop transporting these animals gruesomely killed for fun.
Thank you.
LETTER TO
South African Airways US
Acting CEO Nico Bezuidenhout
General Manager, SAA Cargo Tleli Makhetha
and 1 other
Spokesperson Tlali Tlali
Please stop transporting slaughtered wildlife. Commit to end trophy hunting transport for the Big 5 as many other airlines have already done.
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SAA told to stop enabling trophy hunters of endangered species
SAA told to stop enabling trophy hunters of endangered species
Cape Town - More than 100 000 people have signed a petition asking South African Airways to stop transporting hunting trophies. In July, SAA overturned a temporary embargo it put in place three months ago in May, after a shipment of elephant tusks made its way to Australia...
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14 hours agoPetition update
South African Airways stays quiet while...
Major airlines have agreed not to carry wildlife trophies fro Africa. SAA needs to hear our voices! Please share this petition!
2 weeks agoPetition update
1138 petitions signed!! Thank you.
We are the voice of endangered animals. Let's unite on this front.
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