Culling Elephants

Culling elephants is very brutal and unnecessary. However, it still remains a preferred method of handling the elephant population. If this continues, the next generation of humans may not even know what elephants look like except on the internet or in picture books. The Wildlife management often commands that sizable amounts of these animals are to be killed in one huge fight to decrease an area of more than enough elephants because of diminishing space. I will be discussing what elephants are, what they do to help the environment, the poaching of them, and the problem of poaching.
Elephants are incredible individuals. They hold the title of the "Largest Land Animal", and are among the most intelligent animals. An elephant has 150, 000 muscle features in its trunk, they can swim prolonged distances without becoming fatigued, walk almost silently regardless of weighing roughly 7 tons, can up to 6, 000 miles in a year whilst hunting for food, and can
live for 60 years. The fully grown elephants have no natural elephants, other than us humans.
Like most other animals, elephants possess a massive effect on the other animals in their given habitat. Eating 165 – 330 pounds of food a day, an elephant can move thick brush into open Savannah in no time at all, creating another open habitat for other animals. Multiple tree species rely almost entirely on elephants to scatter their seeds. If the elephant were to wipe out, these animals would not be able to sustain the consequences. With only 2 elephant species left out of 600, the danger of extinction is approaching fast.
If the population in any given area drops below 100 individuals, that population is just about guaranteed to be doomed, having entered an "Extinction vortex." Extended inbreeding leads to genetic deterioration, which then results in less reproductive males and females being born. The numbers begin to decline, and the cycle continues until the population completely dies out. Evidence of this genetic deterioration can be seen in elephant tusks, which are gradually becoming smaller. All elephants with exceptionally large tusks have already been
poached.
In recent years, the quantity of elephant culling's due to poaching have decreased, largely due to the worldwide ban, since 1990, on the trade of ivory. However, the illegal trade continues to perform, and as long as it does, poachers will be merged into it. The poaching problem is uncommonly intricate. Being fuelled by the unlicensed trade to southeast Asia and the rest of the world, it is also the result of lack of education and public services in African Villages. I think culling elephants should be illegal in South Africa because if we continue to poach these poor creatures, there will be an increased risk of extinction. Part of the reason culling is such a big problem is because the elephants live in some of the most drained areas in the world, and those who hunt for them have the possible result for a huge pay out. If these animals are lost, the environment will suffer. Most healthy ecosystems are balanced by the food chain, and if a predator is detached from the picture, the animals it usually hunts for will grow their numbers at an unendurable rate. Many elephants are culled because of an unfortunate belief in some areas that a certain part of an animal, such as a tiger's whisker or a rhino's horn, has needed medical properties that can sometimes be a cure for cancer. It is evident that a single country cannot successfully accomplish conflict poaching and the depletion of elephant habitat. The world needs unite like never before if we want to save our remaining elephants.