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Writing39C | UCI | Bio Sci | Share the World! This page serves as a platform to bring awareness and consciousness to protect animals, our neighbors on Earth

[de @aiia_e]

There are less than 415,000 African elephants left, placing them as endangered species under the IUCN, awareness must be made to conserve these beautiful species! #39canimals

[sunny liu @sunnyliusunny39]

"Illegal poaching has been a severe issue since the 1970s. Back in 1970, the African elephants' population was about 1.4 million (Bauers 2009). However, at the end of 2020, there were only 415,000 African elephants left in the wild (Vaughan 2021)..."
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[de @aiia_e]

Awareness must be made, and advocacy must be enacted! #39canimals

[Antonia Piercey @antonia_39c]

"A petition to stop the murdering of dogs can also help educate others about [euthanasia] and possibly change their minds. Once there are enough signatures, it can demonstrate...that something needs to change in order to end such inhumane methods and save all dogs."
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[de @aiia_e]

Where does does the boundary of our moral consideration lie? #39canimals

[Missy Zhang @MissyZhang16]

#39canimals

if chimpanzees can make tools by themselves, what is the boundary between them and human-beings? Anyway, we are losing them day by day. Jane Goodall claims in the TED talk: "It is a loss of human cultural diversity and I saw it with my own eyes."

[de @aiia_e]

These facts are detrimental, immediate action is needed! #39canimals

[HaotianZhang @Haotian91763770]

If we don't take action, we may never see the Red Wolf again. #39canimals

[de @aiia_e]

This statistic actively illustrates that orcas are safer in their own habitat than they are under our own watch. #39canimals

[Pearl Choi @PearlChoi6]

According to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) organization, since being first placed in captivity in 1961, 166 orcas have been taken into captivity, but 129 of these captured orcas are dead.
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[de @aiia_e]

Dolphins are not only intellectual animals they are emotionally complex and are entitled to the possession of their own existence. #39canimals

[Kimberly Salazar @kimvsal]

"SeaWorld is abusing the high intelligence that dolphins have so they can perform tricks for the audience." #39canimals

[de @aiia_e]

AGREED! More legislative strategies need to be implemented to mitigate and stop the poaching of animals. #39canimals

[jeannie lee @jeannieylee]

#39canimals "Poachers still find loopholes. We should push to adopt more uniform enforcement strategies that will create an even playing field. This will allow poaching to be 'be equally discouraged throughout the range states, affording poachers no refuge of lesser punishments'"

[de @aiia_e]

This is a worldwide problem that must be addressed #39canimals

[HaotianZhang @Haotian91763770]

"Due to the degradation of their habitat and extirpation by humans, Wolves currently inhabit only about two-thirds of their niche worldwide, and about 10 percent of the original range in the United States" #39canimals

[de @aiia_e]

We have the power to instill change and be the voice for the voiceless #39canimals

[de @aiia_e]

This is evidence that elephants need not to be abused and tortured for our pleasure and entertainment, there are other methods such as holograms that are safe practices for our environment that can be used in a wild scope of other places without inflicting harm #39canimals

[Jhanavi @Jhanavi50940078]

Circus Roncalli has become famous for being the first circus to use holograms instead of using wild animals in their acts, and they have received positive responses and plenty of attention from around the world. #39canimals

[de @aiia_e]

It does NOT matter who or "what" feels pain, it is the ability of one to feel pain and with-go suffering that distinguishes their righteousness and their moral and ethical relevance because at the end, pain is pain. #39canimals

[de @aiia_e]

Through #39canimals, my entire perspective of life has significantly changed. Through intensive research, reading, and hearing renown scientists, the most important thing I learned is "Pain is pain"(Peter Singer).
#WhatIlearnedin39C

[de @aiia_e]

Elephants are emotionally complex species, displayed through their grieving process. They remember and mourn their loved ones, even years after their death. This raises the question of our morality and ethical actions toward elephants #WhatIlearnedin39C
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[de @aiia_e]

We as humans need to recognize that many animals just to name a few, whales, dolphins, apes, dogs and elephants have intellectual and emotionally complex similar to us humans, yet many of them have fallen vulnerable under us humans #WhatIlearnedin39C

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[de @aiia_e]

Hi #39canimals, while recapping the gains from this course and my overall research, I learned that getting informed, and raising advocacy through this platform is the key element to be the voice to those that don't have one, and influence a change in the world #WhatIlearnedin39C

[de @aiia_e]

"Twitter is an upstanding tool to not only advocate for elephants but for many other prevalent issues. Through Twitter one can inform & raise awareness of prevalent issues, inherently giving one the direct power to make the world a better place for all to live in" #39canimals

[de @aiia_e]

Poaching is the biggest threat to elephants, inherently leading the drive to the potential eventual extermination of the elephant species. #39canimals

[de @aiia_e]

"To extend on the issue of the ivory trade, 100 African elephants are killed each day by poachers pursuing ivory. 70% of ivory is imported to China. China is not the only consumer of ivory, the U.S, Thailand...Vietnam are also large consumers of ivory (Linder)"#39canimals

[de @aiia_e]

The implementation of anti-poaching legislation significantly increases the elephant population, in order to reach legislation, collective awareness about poaching affecting the existence of elephants must be made and advocated for! #39canimals

[de @aiia_e]

"In Kenya, through governmental and societal anti-poaching efforts, and legislation, poaching of elephants has been reduced by 90% and has shown steady elephant population increments. Figure 2 demonstrates the significant impact of anti-poaching laws (Poaching Facts)"#39canimals