African elephants NUMBERED 20 million in 1800s.
Protect our Borders. Terminate Ivory Trade. Fix Regulatory Gaps. Halt Terror Funding. Support Park Rangers. Keep Migration Trails. End the Killing Now.
99% of the world's elephants have SINCE vanished.
WE CALL ON THE WHITE HOUSE TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO SAVE OUR ELEPHANTS FROM EXTINCTION
Transnational Organized Crime Cartels have advanced in power over the last decade driven by state corruption, and armed conflicting including warfare and terrorism. According to a 2026 report by the Institute for International Political Studies, ivory traffickers and terrorist cells frequently exist side-by-side and frequently join forces. Across the East African coast and further afield, these morally bankrupt networks utilize the same illicit middlemen, cross-border corridors, and shadow financial systems.
The general antique and craft markets in the United States serve as the primary infrastructure to launder illicit blood ivory into the domestic economy. Trafficking networks utilize this unmonitored repository — estimated to hold a valuation range of $10 Billion to $30 Billion USD — as a mechanism for High-Value Storage. By converting poached ivory into unique, bespoke, or decorative artifacts, illicit networks create an elite, untraceable physical currency. This allows Transnational Organized Crime and terrorist facilitators to move millions of dollars across international borders in a single container, completely bypassing the global banking system and all Anti-Money Laundering (AML) monitoring.
To dismantle this threat, our campaign urges the White House to issue a National Security Directive via Executive Order to close the federal ‘antique’ and ‘mammoth’ loopholes once and for all.
No exemptions for art must be included in the no loophole ban. Elephants are on the brink of extinction therefore “ivory art” is not a commodity that can be celebrated as an artistic product of monetary value as it is bound to elephant destruction and consequently fuels the rate of their impending extinction.
By treating this crisis as a direct national security imperative, the executive action overrides standard statutory limitations and institutes a zero-tolerance domestic market ban. This strategy builds directly upon the battle-tested "Gold Standard" precedent established by the State of New Jersey in 2014.
The scale of this crisis requires immediate action. In less than a decade this century alone, populations in heavily targeted regions have plummeted — savanna elephants by as much as 55% and forest elephants by 87-90%.
Elephant populations are in freefall because they are being systematically targeted by global organized criminal syndicates and ivory bone collectors using America's "antique" and "mammoth" loopholes on open markets and fueling high demand for raw ivory traded on the dark market as an illicit currency.
Because old ivory is visually indistinguishable from freshly poached ivory without destructive laboratory carbon testing, this dark commerce hides in plain sight.
Evil isn’t defeated by compromise. The media falsely reported that Obama enacted a “near-total” ban a decade ago. The Golden Age of America should include saving elephants from extinction.
"True leadership means fighting for the causes that protect the vulnerable, even when the opposition seems insurmountable. Saving elephants from extinction isn’t just a conservation issue — it is a moral and national security imperative."
— Raymond Lesniak, New Jersey Senator from 1983 to 2018
