In the article "Slaughter of the African Elephants" written by Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels, they also talk about how poachers and hunters are making elephants become almost extinct in southern Africa.
Mother elephants are very protective over their babies but if somebody (hunter, poacher ext.) comes to them with a gun they cannot fight the bullets that can kill them. Elephants are being killed for their tusks which are used to make very popular jewelry in China.
62% of elephants have basically disappeared from central African from 2002 and 2011 from being hunted and killed. The tusks they are being hunted for is made out of ivory, and people use ivory for trinkets that have no sole purpose but just to wear.
People don’t really think about what it takes to get these small pieces of jewelry or accessories, they only care about the design. No animal should be killed for something that can’t even be used for good or be killed for design purposes. Making a whole species endangered because of the rising demand of what people want is not okay.
Elephants are more than just animals that walk around all day. They travel around a whole lot and carry seeds out through forest for many miles and leaving trails that other animals use, the droppings that they leave behind help keep the forest healthy.
The animals are living in fear because of this. And because they are living in fear, the animals are scared to walk around and garden the forest and the younger elephants are also affected because they cannot have a social connection to the outside world.
When elephants are mourning they don’t walk around, and with the danger of being killed and any living moment by a poacher they don’t do much. Seeing any animal loose its life is a very sad thing to know about and that is why this needs to be stopped now.
Elephants mourn over loved ones who have died and young elephant’s mothers who die and they are living off their mother’s milk also die because of starvation. No mother means no milk and no milk mean hunger and when the babies are always hungry cannot live.
Wild life guards are doing their best to try and protect the animals from danger but are usually out gunned and are helpless to the animals.
It isn't too late to help the animals, but when it is we won’t be able to do anything. People don't know the danger and harm they are causing for a small accessories that has no use. If more people are warned about the elephant’s importance to the forest and savanna, that killing them is making the Earth a worse place, the demand will slowly but surely decrease.
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