The Hard but True Facts about Animals

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Elephants, sharks, and several different kinds of fishes are among just a few of the thousands and thousands of species affected each year from human activities. Certain people think that these animals each serve a “valuable” purpose to humans. People think that they can take advantage of them and kill thousands of the animals yearly. Sadly, humans have affected animals and their evolutionary path forever. With the act of ivory poaching, shark finning, overfishing, and numerous other ways of killing animals for just part of their body, people should realize that all of this unneeded killing is awful for the species and downright cruel to animals.
Ivory from both Asian and African elephants have been used for human enjoyment for far too long. People have used ivory to “…make billiards balls, piano keys, identification chops and many other items” (4). People have used ivory for a number of years, but recently, within the past one hundred year or so, “man’s avarice for ivory has led to the senseless slaughter of hundreds of thousands of these magnificent animals” (2). Everybody prizes ivory, therefore it has become very popular on the black market. Meaning that people will kill an innocent elephant just for their tusks, and leave the rest of the body to waste. Elephant tusks are magnificent because “One third of the tusk is actually hidden from view, embedded deep in the elephant’s head” (3). That means for a poacher to take the tusks from and elephant, they must kill it first and then remove the tusks one at a time. The elephant’s tusks “are actually elongated incisors and are essentially no different from other teeth” (2). Poachers do not care about what they do to the future of elephants by poaching their tusks; all they care abo...

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...res have continued to live on and not perish, as they would have if these organizations never existed.
Lastly, the people of earth need to realize that they need to worry about the world around them, not just themselves. Far too often people get concerned only about what will happen to them in the moment. People need to realize that there are alternatives to all kinds of poaching and overfishing. People need to remind themselves constantly that the world of tomorrow starts today. These animals cannot do anything to help themselves; humans are at the top of the food chain. That means that only humans can save the world of tomorrow. Through determination, hard-work, and the willingness to have a better world for the future generations, people need to get their act together and start helping out these organizations and companies to help push the world to a better one.

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