Update your Cookie Settings to use this feature.
Click 'Allow All' or just activate the 'Targeting Cookies'
By continuing you accept Avaaz's Privacy Policy which explains how your data can be used and how it is secured.
Got it

Save the Rhinos!

Please check your email to validate your email address.
Close
Well done! Your profile has been updated.
Close
Close

Just to be sure

Would you like to receive Avaaz emails and agree that Avaaz may use your data and campaign actions to tell you about other campaigns, fundraisers and events?
Would you like to receive Avaaz emails and agree that Avaaz may use your data and campaign actions to tell you about other campaigns, fundraisers and events?
Sign the petition

To leaders of the EU:

As concerned global citizens we call on you to push members of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to save rhinos by immediately suspending trade in all rhino products. Furthermore, enforcement measures should be strengthened and consumer countries must honour their promises to run far-reaching public awareness campaigns. Your action today can end deadly poaching and save the species from extinction.
Enter your email address:
By continuing you agree to receive Avaaz emails. Our Privacy Policy will protect your data and explains how it can be used. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Recent signers

Save the Rhinos!
The rhino is being hunted into extinction and could disappear forever unless we act now. Shocking new statistics show more than 440 rhinos were brutally killed last year in South Africa alone -- a massive increase on five years ago when just 13 had their horns hacked off. EU environment ministers meet in 3 days and could decide on bold new actions to save these amazing creatures but they need to hear from us first!

Fuelling this devastation is a huge spike in demand for rhino horns used for bogus cancer cures, hangover remedies and good luck charms in China and Vietnam. Protests from South Africa and around the world are being mostly ignored by the authorities. But the European Union could change this when they meet on Friday to discuss their position ahead of a crucial international summit in July to save species such as the rhino.

The situation is so dire that the threat has even spread into British zoos who are on red-alert for rhino killing gangs now hunting in the very places built to protect rhinos! The EU has the power to persuade the convention that governs trade in wildlife to increase the protection of these endangered animals by banning all types of rhino trade into China and Vietnam. Let’s raise a giant roar for rhinos and urge Europe to lead and push for new protections to save them from extinction. We have only 3 days left until the EU meets -- sign the petition and forward this widely. Avaaz will deliver it to the EU meeting in Brussels on Friday!

Posted:

Tell Your Friends