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Originally Posted by zaks The best would be to increase the awareness and write to your respective forest ministries letters of public support. Also we have to make sure the government does more then offer lip service to forests and wildlife. Corporate help is welcome and fine if they don't make it self promotional. Aircel is airing a good Ad but the site asks for signup with phone number which could be used for marketing their offers.
You can instead write to the project tiger govt initiative- Home Page-Project Tiger |
We have so many members with wrong asssumptions. First of all it is not a aircel campaign. It is a campaign from WWF-India. This campaign started in 2007. Nobody gave a heed to this at that time because there was no sponcer. Arent we indians like that? Untill something is shoved into our faces, we dont awake. Now we are taking an excuse saying that it is ploy to build a brand image. Cant you think for a second that what if it is a true campaign? You still got away from this thinking that it was some marketing plan.
ZAKS, Another misconception, you dont have to give your phone number still you can register.
The problem with us indian is that we tend to reach the outcome without even try.
I want to ask just one thing from my fellow bhpians. What do you loose in even trying to register even if it is futile? When will learn to at-least try to do something even it looks lame.
We have the same attitude on the road. We scream at this site about people not following traffic rules. Have we tried small things from our side. Is'nt it our attitude that what will happen if I try. Other people will not learn.
I am not amazed to see the same kind of response even for this issue. Even if this campaign fails tomorrow (I pray to god, it does not) I will have the satisfaction that at least I tried whatever I could. What about the people who are thinking that it is a fake campaign? They would be telling their kids tomorrow by showing the picture of the tiger saying 'Son, it was our national animal who was extinct few years ago because of negligence of us indians." You dont have a right to say that about "indians". You are the first person who did not even try to do a small thing like registering on a website.
I have already said that in india we still think that these online petition's are useless but they have worked everywhere. What is the loss in even in trying. I will give you few examples of success of these petitions.
1. Commercial fishing in all marine parks in Hong Kong was banned.
2. An ambitious proposal has now been put forward by the Scottish Government which includes a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050.
3. The New Zealand government has announced vital new protection measures for the dolphins that will halt their decline.
4. In a major victory for conservation, raising captive tigers for trade in their parts was rejected by members of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in The Hague in June 2007.
These are just a few that I have listed. If you want to know more about it, go to this website:
WWF Passport - Our successes
People we have a lot to loose if we dont do anything. Atleast we could support this cause by signing the campaign.