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Dear friends,

50,000 elephants are massacred for their tusks, every year — and there are only 450,000 left! We’re running out of time for these magnificent animals.

Experts agree: to stop the carnage, we have to target the criminal gangs and corrupt officials who are orchestrating the mass murder of Africa’s elephants.

And we have a chance to do exactly that.

Working in nine African countries, a tiny team of undercover investigators is infiltrating the criminal networks and bringing them to justice. They’re ruthlessly effective — taking down illegal ivory syndicates responsible for killing up to 100,000 elephants!

dr, you’re part of our movement to defend life on Earth. This is a chance to directly fuel that fight. Together we can fund hundreds of new investigations to cripple the gruesome trade in animal parts. Our small donations, pooled from across the planet, will have a direct impact in the fight for elephants.

Let’s power these investigators and accelerate Avaaz campaigns everywhere to protect wildlife and vanishing habitats. The more we raise, the harder we can fight for these magnificent animals. Donate what you can now:

Many of these arrests, and the elephants that were protected as a result, are thanks to donations from Avaaz members. We are having a direct impact on the illegal trade in wildlife — and by pooling our donations, we could now power hundreds of new investigations — and accelerate our fight to win the laws and treaties needed to protect life on Earth. If we raise enough, we could:

• Train and sustain dozens of undercover investigators to crack open some of the world’s most-wanted wildlife trafficking networks;
• Scale up the number of anti-trafficking investigations in nine countries, potentially arresting hundreds of wildlife traffickers;
• Support Indigenous leaders fighting to protect nature from logging, mining, and wildlife traffickers;
• Power a massive Avaaz campaign to win nature restoration laws in dozens of countries — helping oceans, rivers, and forests to regenerate; and,
• Launch hard-hitting campaigns to secure international funding for nature protections in the Global South, and to halt the extinction crisis.

These brave investigators are one of the very last lines of defence for animals on the edge of existence. But without urgent funding, their work could grind to a halt. We cannot let it happen — let’s supercharge their investigations to help stop the elephant massacre:

With hope and fierce determination,

Camille, Mike, Adela, Kaitlin, Bert and the whole team at Avaaz

PS. This might be your first donation to our movement ever. But what a first donation! Did you know that Avaaz relies entirely on small donations from members like you? That’s why we’re fully independent, nimble and effective. Join the over 1 million people who’ve donated to make Avaaz a real force for good in the world.

• Elephant extinction must be avoided for sake of climate, study warns (Sky News)
• Africa’s forest elephant has been largely overlooked. Now we need to fight for it (The Guardian)
• Ivory from at least 150 poached elephants seized in the DRC raid (Mongabay)
• Update on our ivory trade campaign (Avaaz)