Elephant Poaching Research Paper
Kinzie rush
Poaching and Ivory Trade
Before there was poaching, Africa thrived with many amazing animals, but now it is rare to see these animals roam the plains of Africa (OP). Poaching has left some species on the critical endangered list because the animals are being poached faster than they can reproduce. The poaching in Africa is becoming one of the main reasons for elephant and rhino population decline incredibly fast. Also poaching is causing many baby elephants and rhinos to become orphaned. Elephants and rhinos are slowly starting to vanish due to poaching.
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Around two million years ago the elephant species split in two. The two groups where forest elephants and savanna elephants. There are 100,000 forest elephants left and around 400,000 savanna elephants are left. I million elephants lived about 40 years ago. Over a decade the population plummeted 65%. The male elephants are the main target because they have bigger tusks which means more ivory. Elephants also have a very slow reproducing rate. Elephants can only have one baby every year and that baby does not alway live. This means that the population drops fast very …show more content…
Poachers poach for the ivory off of the animals, such as the tusks of an elephant and the horns of the rhinos. The ivory trade has accelerated in the past five years. Ivory is now worth more in its weight than gold. When a poacher poaches an animal they only take the tusks or horns and then leave the rest of the animal. People have tried to make laws but the traders alway find a way around them. Traders will change their trade routs. 100 tons of ivory has been found from Namibia. 90% of ivory sale is in China. In 2007 the ivory trade doubled this meant that more and more animals were being killed just for ivory. There was a transporter who was fined 3,000 dollars for smuggling two tons of ivory. In the 1960s people were paying three to ten dollars per pound for ivory in 1975 people were charged 50 dollars per pound and in 1987 it was 125 dollars per pound and prices have only gone up. There is now new manufacturing for the carving of ivory. Now raw ivory is carved and then exported to east
Poaching and Ivory Trade
Before there was poaching, Africa thrived with many amazing animals, but now it is rare to see these animals roam the plains of Africa (OP). Poaching has left some species on the critical endangered list because the animals are being poached faster than they can reproduce. The poaching in Africa is becoming one of the main reasons for elephant and rhino population decline incredibly fast. Also poaching is causing many baby elephants and rhinos to become orphaned. Elephants and rhinos are slowly starting to vanish due to poaching.
Until people know what poaching is …show more content…
Around two million years ago the elephant species split in two. The two groups where forest elephants and savanna elephants. There are 100,000 forest elephants left and around 400,000 savanna elephants are left. I million elephants lived about 40 years ago. Over a decade the population plummeted 65%. The male elephants are the main target because they have bigger tusks which means more ivory. Elephants also have a very slow reproducing rate. Elephants can only have one baby every year and that baby does not alway live. This means that the population drops fast very …show more content…
Poachers poach for the ivory off of the animals, such as the tusks of an elephant and the horns of the rhinos. The ivory trade has accelerated in the past five years. Ivory is now worth more in its weight than gold. When a poacher poaches an animal they only take the tusks or horns and then leave the rest of the animal. People have tried to make laws but the traders alway find a way around them. Traders will change their trade routs. 100 tons of ivory has been found from Namibia. 90% of ivory sale is in China. In 2007 the ivory trade doubled this meant that more and more animals were being killed just for ivory. There was a transporter who was fined 3,000 dollars for smuggling two tons of ivory. In the 1960s people were paying three to ten dollars per pound for ivory in 1975 people were charged 50 dollars per pound and in 1987 it was 125 dollars per pound and prices have only gone up. There is now new manufacturing for the carving of ivory. Now raw ivory is carved and then exported to east