Free Ivory Fridays for 3/13/15

Mark Knapp

Mark Knapp

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Would you like to win these mammoth ivory scales?

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You can enter in two ways, either answer the question of the week or tell me what results you got when you contacted your legislators about the ivory bans. If you answer the legislator question your name is in every week automatically. Answer both questions and you are in twice this week.

This weeks question is; What is name (or acronym) of the international organization tasked with job of tracking the numbers of elephants poached and the trade routes of illicit ivory?
 
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) , but also tracked by Center for Conservation Biology
 
CITES is correct in a broader sense but there is another organization who sole purpose is elephants and ivory. I'm looking for that name.
 
How about the "International Elephant Foundation", dedicated to African and Asian elephants worldwide?
 
Nope, none of these answers are correct, it is a branch of CITES that deals with just elephants and ivory.
 
MIKE and TRAFFIC are both entities within ETIS and ETIS is a branch of CITES that deals with elephant and ivory. You guys and gal are all in. the rest of you can still enter by letting me know what your legislators said when you contacted them.
 
Mark in Oklahoma the bill did make it to Committee after all. Rep. Wallace said it failed because of lack of motion.
 
Got a reply back from another rep in my state(Jessyn Farrell)after the bill had failed thanking me for my comments, and that said rep would make sure it never got out of committee if attempted again. So better result than first rep who got back to me.
 
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Aidenag said:
Got a reply back from another rep in my state(Jessyn Farrell)after the bill had failed thanking me for my comments, and that said rep would make sure it never got out of committee if attempted again. So better result than first rep who got back to me.
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Great, thanks. You are in for every week.
 
darn it looks like I was to late I came up with mike as well. It is not easy getting a hold legislators in Ca.
 
rmbonham said:
darn it looks like I was to late I came up with mike as well. It is not easy getting a hold legislators in Ca.
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The easiest way is using email through these links;

From this link: http://www.usa.gov/Contact/US-Congress.shtml You can select either repersentive or senator of your state. Even find an email for white house - couildn't be simpler.

This link: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/AL will allow you to see all senators and reps for each state, in my case for Alabama. The person's name will take you to their website with a "Contact me" link.
 
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