Essay On Elephant Poaching

Elephant Poaching

During the 1970’s 1.3 million elephants roamed the plains of Africa. Fast forward twenty years and the specie of African elephants has six hundred thousand remained. During 2006 only ten thousand elephants remained in Africa. During the same time the elephant population of Kenya dropped dramatically by 87%. Elephant poaching is still at large and destroying the population of elephants in Africa. Since elephants are such a large animal that is easy to target largest the African savannah elephants took the largest loss, many were killed to a point where hunters could not find anymore.The resolution for hunters were to move to the forest to hunt the smaller forest species of elephants.

Elephant poaching is a real problem and some scientist

A estimate that was tallied of illegal kills during 2011 alone found out that one out of twelve African elephants was killed because poaching for ivory. although illegal to kill an elephant in Africa and most parts of the world. people continue to find reasons to justify the killing of these majestic beasts. If they are not being killed for ivory they are being killed for another reason such as revenge. In both the savannahs and forest of Africa groups of elephants are being targeted because of the human population. Some herders such as the Masai have found a way to live in harmony with the elephants. By leaving their farms without fences, elephants are able to roam through the farm without having the elephant destroying fences and hurting livestock. Farmers look at elephants as large pests that can come when they want, destroy their crops and in the way kill them also. Since that tensions are always high with elephants and farmers even if no crops were destroyed by any elephants farmers would kill the closes elephant they see to get revenge or become even with the animals for destroying their crops even if not