The Ivory Wars: Epidemic Elephant Slaughter in Africa
Hayley Schneider
November 13, 2013
Global Issues
“The Ivory Wars” Africa is in the middle of a growing epidemic elephant slaughter. This growing slaughter began in 2002 and is currently happening till this day. Conservation groups share that elephant poachers are killing tens of thousands of elephants every year, which is more than at any time since the “Ivory Wars” has started. Recently in Garamba National park, Paul Onyango says that he has never seen anything like this before. 22 elephants were killed with a single shot to the head, including several young elephants as well. The reasons for the slaughtering is that poachers sell the animals tusks which have ivory in them. Law officials say that some of Africa’s most notorious armed groups, which includes the Lord’s Resistance Army, the Shabab, and Darfur’s Janjaweed, are hunting the elephants and using their tusks to buy weapons and to continue their chaos. Plans are to move the organize crime for ivory around the world, misusing tempestuous states, absorbent borders and dishonest officials from sub-Saharan Africa to China. But it is not just these notorious groups that are cashing in. Members or some of the African armies that the American government supports with millions in dollars, as the Congolese Army and South Sudan’s military have implicated poaching and selling ivory. Experts say that the majority of the ivory- as much as 70 percent is sent to China. Which the push of price of ivory is $1,000 per pound on the streets of Beijing. The “Ivory Wars” is a global issue because the poachers that are slaughtering all of the elephants are beginning to sell ivory internationally. Second, I believe that the whole eco system is dependent on itself. So all of these elephants are being killed off and eventually will be distinct, thus changing the food change and eliminating the food for animals who are higher in the food change. If we don’t fight for the existence of our animals, nothing will be left for
November 13, 2013
Global Issues
“The Ivory Wars” Africa is in the middle of a growing epidemic elephant slaughter. This growing slaughter began in 2002 and is currently happening till this day. Conservation groups share that elephant poachers are killing tens of thousands of elephants every year, which is more than at any time since the “Ivory Wars” has started. Recently in Garamba National park, Paul Onyango says that he has never seen anything like this before. 22 elephants were killed with a single shot to the head, including several young elephants as well. The reasons for the slaughtering is that poachers sell the animals tusks which have ivory in them. Law officials say that some of Africa’s most notorious armed groups, which includes the Lord’s Resistance Army, the Shabab, and Darfur’s Janjaweed, are hunting the elephants and using their tusks to buy weapons and to continue their chaos. Plans are to move the organize crime for ivory around the world, misusing tempestuous states, absorbent borders and dishonest officials from sub-Saharan Africa to China. But it is not just these notorious groups that are cashing in. Members or some of the African armies that the American government supports with millions in dollars, as the Congolese Army and South Sudan’s military have implicated poaching and selling ivory. Experts say that the majority of the ivory- as much as 70 percent is sent to China. Which the push of price of ivory is $1,000 per pound on the streets of Beijing. The “Ivory Wars” is a global issue because the poachers that are slaughtering all of the elephants are beginning to sell ivory internationally. Second, I believe that the whole eco system is dependent on itself. So all of these elephants are being killed off and eventually will be distinct, thus changing the food change and eliminating the food for animals who are higher in the food change. If we don’t fight for the existence of our animals, nothing will be left for