Have you heard about ivory trading? Well elephants have been dying humans are going to Africa killing african elephants and taking their tusks off. They are called poachers, poachers are people who hunt illegally. After they hunt down the animals they turn them into bracelets,rings,necklaces,gifts,chopsticks. They then sell them. Some even take their meat to give to their families. Ivory trade is only allowed if and only they have a license many of the poachers don't.
An example is Desire Dontegos was a barbarous killer. For many years this 39-year-old hunted in the jungles of Africa in inspection to find animal tusks. He had job to kill animals one by one each trip he took to the forest after killing the elephants they will only take their tusks and their meat and leave their skin their. In advance, after 10 years he heard an american environmentalist talking why it is bad to kill them. He started to feel convicted, after he
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There are about 400,000 to 500,000 elephants in Africa. Elephants need all the protection they can get. This may lead to an extinction .Groups have been stating that Sudan has become the nerve center of ivory trade. Ivory has been found on the streets of Khartoum, Khartoum is the capital of Sudan. Accessories like gifts, jewelry are sold in the streets. Esmond Marin has been researching and has found out that most poachers are members of the Sudan military. Trading is allowed in Sudan although they must have a government license. They are only allowed to sell them if and only they are carved before 1990. However, most of them are carved after 1900. Martin stated that he counted more than 11,000 ivory item in 50 stores located in Khartoum. That is a lot elephants when you think about it. All things considered this affects elephants in a variety of ways they may become extinct in the near future because of ivory
The Ivory game is a documentary about the illegal poaching that is going on in Africa. It is aimed at bringing awareness to the black market business of ivory that is running rampant in China and the danger that it poses on elephants and even people who want to help against poaching. The producers of the movie are Kief Davidson, Wolfgang Knopfler, and Walter Kohler. These people worked together to bring the movie that has information about the illegal ivory trading in China and Africa and released the movie in the year 2016. The documentary did an amazing job at conveying it’s message with the logos and pathos fields, although it needed to strengthen the ethos section of the triangle.
Another case would be the Robert Harris article by Miles Corwin, that analyzes the murder of two teen boys. In this case, it was discovered that Robert Harris and his brother Daniel tried to rob a bank using the teen’s car. Robert promised he wouldn't kill them and they had no other choice to believe him. As they walked away, he shot one of them. The other then ran, but was shot and killed. Robert then came back and killed the almost lifeless boy. Devastating enough, he then proceeded to eat the lunch the two left behind, 15 minutes following the crime. Normally, someone would say that what he did should never be forgiven because he chose to kill them, but after learning about his childhood, one would argue otherwise. Based on the terrible events that occurred throughout his life, for example the hatred and the multiple assaults, that person would then think about the fact that maybe it wasn’t his fault; that maybe he didn’t have control over his impulses. No matter how many examples are given, the debate never ceases and the real question pops up. Is what the person believes fact, or
Chapter 5 presents the western area and how the Colorado Fur Trade really began in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, with Taos and Santa Fe being the trade centers. It all began with the “coarse fur” trade (deer, antelope and elk) with northern New Mexico by the Spanish beginning in the mid-1600s and lasting well into the 1850s, later expanding into the “fine fur” trade (beaver and muskrat) in the 1800s. From here, it’s hard to follow exactly how the trade was conducted as until the early 1800s, most trades outside of Santa Fe, Chihuahua city, or other specified locations in the states were forbidden, leaving many jailed in Mexico for the attempt. The Spanish would continue trading, as far north as Wyoming until 1821 when Mexico would
George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” is a short story that not only shows cultural divides and how they affect our actions, but also how that cultural prejudice may also affect other parties, even if, in this story, that other party may only be an elephant. Orwell shows the play for power between the Burmese and the narrator, a white British police-officer. It shows the severe prejudice between the British who had claimed Burma, and the Burmese who held a deep resentment of the British occupation. Three messages, or three themes, from Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” are prejudice, cultural divide, and power.
Killing animals to collect their horns, tusks and teeth is a common activity. Hunters firstly kill the animals with shotguns or snipers, and then they cut the animals into pieces to take the parts that they want to keep as souvenirs. Africa is usually the chosen “playground” because it has a wide range of animal species and lots of endemic animals. For some people, trophy hunting is a sport, and for others, it’s a job to make a living. However, trophy hunting jeopardizes animals and puts the endangered animals in a risk of extinction, and therefore it shouldn’t be allowed.
The fur trade is a significant event in the history of Canada. History provides the clearest evidence of how a particular form of production - in this case animal furs- can influence not only the development of an economy, but a country’s social, cultural, and political organizations as well. In terms of knowledge about the fur trade, most of it is based on the perspective of the white fur traders who adventured to Canada to trap animals and conquer territory. It is important to understand the events of the fur trade, but in doing so it is equally imperative to look at the ways the Indigenous people contributed. Their perspective is often disregarded when looking at this historical event. From helping traders navigate
There’s another catch to trophy hunting: it is extremely expensive. Permits for trophy hunting usually cost thousands of dollars, which leads to the idea that killing animals can actually help conservation. This concept might seem ridiculous at first, but trophy-hunting permits bring in a plethora of money. For instance, the so-called “ten-day ‘elephant package’ could cost… 36,000 [dollars]” (learnenglish). Even if you merely wish to watch the hunt, you are obliged to pay 3,800 dollars (abcnews). The prices are strikingly high, meaning that so is the revenue. South Africa alone brings in more than 744 million dollars every single year, making it its “most profitable form of commercial land use” (learnenglish). This enormous amount of money can not only be used to aid the many third world countries in Africa, but also with conservation. Many argue that by killing wild game during hunting, it causes some species to go extinct. However, strong economic incentive has motivated landowners to expand their territories, reintroduce species, and take care of the animals in general, which would indicate the opposite: more animals are safe. One might even conclude that the world is saving animals, by killing
This is clearly shown in Brooks Douglass’ case. Brooks Douglass is an Oklahoma senator who had to face the realities of murder and rape, two of the most atrocious crimes. When he was a teenager, “two men barged into his home, took his family hostage, raped his sister and killed his parents in front of him” (CNN). When he finally become a state senator for Oklahoma he wrote the legislation that gave him the right to watch one of these men, Steven Hatch, die. On an interview with CNN Douglass said “that seeing [Hatch] executed brought him a sense of
Some countries (for example Canada) allow the clubbing of seals to be taken place every year, for entertainment and their fur. And what about the elephants, did we really have to wait until they were nearly extinct before abolishing the ivory trade, just a few years ago?
The common name is the African Elephant, the scientific name is Loxodonta Africana, the phylum is Vertebrata, the class is Mammalia, the order is Proboscidea, and the family is Elephantidae. The Closest Relatives to the African Elephant are: the Asian Elephant, mammoths, primitive proboscidean (mastodons), sea cows, and hyraxes. Scientists believe that the African Elephant evolved from one of its closest relatives, the Sea Cow. The geographical location and range of the African elephant covers all of central and southern Africa. In Ethiopia there are isolated populations that exist around Lake Chad in Mali and Mauritania. Also in Kenya, Rhodesia, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Zaire, and in National parks located in South Africa, as well as several other countries. African Elephants, originally, were found in all of the Sub-Saharan African habitats except desert steppes. Elephants still occupy diverse habitats such as: temperate grassland, tropical savanna and grass lands, temperate forest and rainforest, tropical rainforest, tropical scrub forest, and tropical deciduous forest despite their drastic decline in numbers. However, their migratory patterns and habitat use have changed, due to the fact that they are restricted to protected areas. The elephant can exist in many types of environments but it prefers places that have many trees and bushes, which the elephant needs both for food and shade. They also like warm areas that have plenty of rainfall.
The city of Cameroon is located near the border of the Atlantic Ocean, its neighbors are Congo, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. The republic of Cameroon is a democracy which grants executive powers and control to its president. The languages dominating this republic are English and French and has an area of 475,650 Km2 which will turn out to be slightly bigger than the state of California in size. The monetary unit in the republic of Cameroon is the Franc, it has been pegged to the euro since the early 2000’s. The climate of the southern part of the republic is hot and moist due to annual rainfall while the northern part has a more comfortable climate. Overall Cameroon is a territory of diverse climate zones and is populated by varieties of
The number of African and Asian elephants in North American zoos is declining as a result of many medical issues. A new disease has recently been discovered that is now hindering elephant’s ability to survive even further. This is a major problem because according to Science Magazine, as of 1997, there are only an estimated 291 Asian elephants and 193 African elephants left in North American zoos. Since this survey was conducted, this number has severely declined. It is now estimated that for every elephant that is born in a zoo another three die.
“Only when the last of the animals horns, tusks, skin[sic] and bones are sold, will mankind realize that money can never buy back our wildlife” (Anonymous). Throughout history there have been individuals who killed innocent, sparsely populated species of animals for the sole purpose of making money. Those ungrateful human beings performed this sordid task without considering the outcome and everlasting effects on which will be played out. One such animal that was illegally hunted to near extinction was the African lion, the world’s most majestic creature, which sits on a thrown overshadowing all other creatures known to man. The population of the african lion had roughly decreased 50 percent since 1990 (Leake, 2016). The innocent killing of
The dynamic natural environment and abundant wildlife are the most prominent features of the African continent. Due to its wide variety of biomes ranging from tropical forests to arid deserts, Africa consists of bountiful wildlife diversity. However, because of environmentally harmful human interactions, the variety of biomes is shrinking to all-time lows, which causes wildlife to die out. These detrimental human interactions, particularly livestock overgrazing and desertification, occur partly because the native people who depend on the land for daily life do not realize the potential benefits of wildlife and the unsustainability of their current ways. Poaching for horns and other valuable animal parts has also contributed to the decreasing amount of species present in the wild. However, the methods for conserving the wildlife environment differ in how they address the issue of the dwindling wildlife populations. The conventional method of conservation created in the mold of the Convention Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora in their Natural State (also known as the London Convention) involves the complete centralization of wildlife resources to the government. The newer, more effective method called the Sustainable Use Approach makes drastic changes to the London Convention principles by decentralizing ownership of wildlife and allowing small communities and villages to manage it themselves.
Over the years, elephant populations have drastically declined. This is due to human encroachment on their habitat and poaching. Demand for ivory has increased the number of poaching kills in Africa. In 1988, Congress passed the African Elephant Conservation Act, which placed a ban against illegal ivory imports and authorizes government funding for elephant field conservation projects. Although some African countries have initiated African elephant conservation programs, many do not have the sufficient resources to properly manage, conserve and protect their elephant’s populations.