There is nothing so -

There is nothing so heartbreaking

Than to know in my lifetime

Elephant, lion and rhino

May be gone in a decade's time.

There are those who trophy hunt them

Lion bones end up in wine

Elephant are killed so ivory

Is carved into Asian figurine.

There is no greater sadness

Than to see an elephant die.

Or to stand beside a rhino carcass

And ever wonder why

As our disappearing wilderness

And our mega-fauna pass on by

Aeons they have prospered-

Gone... in a twinkle of an eye.

I have travelled across this vast world

And down through the tracts of time

But the pleasures that really draw me

Are our creatures... so sublime.

They are treasures of this planet

They are gifts of pearls and wine.

They're our sisters, they're our brothers

They are our family... yours and mine.

There is nothing e're so helpless

Than to realise this heinous crime

Of the poaching onslaught raging

Brings them to their end of time.

Current legislation is failing

Poaching soars beyond control

Asian demand is brutally rising;

We need to re-define our role.

Solutions will elude us

If between us we all fight.

Try to debate the issues

And there is no place where you might.

All the parties have their reasons

Neither one is wrong or right.

Meantime the decimation of the species

Rages unabated... out of sight.

There is nothing so disappointing

Than to see rhino supporters fall

Like cannibals upon their own members

When pro-traders make their call.

Conservation of a species

Requires contributions from us all.

Pragmatism not zealotry

Will save the species from downfall.

There is nothing so -

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