After almost a year away from home, Andrea Turkalo came back to find ripped screen windows, a car with no battery, and “...all her kitchenware, furniture, and reference books had been taken.” All her work that she had been doing for years was destroyed.
You may think that Andrea Turkalo was robbed but it is so much more than that. Turkalo has lived in a camp at Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, in Central Africa, for 20 years. Turkalo and many others are targeted for their relationship with elephants. In 2014 the park was infiltrated by a large group of poachers. The poachers killed thousands of the elephants for their ivory tusks. The poachers later would sell the tusks on the black market for thousands. Poachers don’t only kill thousands of elephants they also go to every camp that they have access to and steal everything that is valuable.
You may be asking yourself why would they kill the sweet elephants who have done nothing wrong to harm humans. As it turns out, these beautiful creatures have ivory tusks and “ivory is more profitable than heroin or raw diamonds,” so killing elephants for their tusks actually will make you very …show more content…
The bears and the gorillas are the biggest attraction and people love to watch the baby elephant following its mommy. What you don’t remember is anyone telling you about the elephant poaching and that the existence of elephants is in jeopardy. I remember the first time that I was told that elephants were in danger. After reading my class an “Elephant and Piggie” book, in second grade, Mrs. Seltzer went on to tell us that elephants are being killed for their ivory tusks. I never really thought about the problem unless I was doing something that involved elephants. Which is the problem, not enough people know about the elephant crisis and how are people supposed to do something to change the situation if nobody knows that there has to be
You may think that Andrea Turkalo was robbed but it is so much more than that. Turkalo has lived in a camp at Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, in Central Africa, for 20 years. Turkalo and many others are targeted for their relationship with elephants. In 2014 the park was infiltrated by a large group of poachers. The poachers killed thousands of the elephants for their ivory tusks. The poachers later would sell the tusks on the black market for thousands. Poachers don’t only kill thousands of elephants they also go to every camp that they have access to and steal everything that is valuable.
You may be asking yourself why would they kill the sweet elephants who have done nothing wrong to harm humans. As it turns out, these beautiful creatures have ivory tusks and “ivory is more profitable than heroin or raw diamonds,” so killing elephants for their tusks actually will make you very …show more content…
The bears and the gorillas are the biggest attraction and people love to watch the baby elephant following its mommy. What you don’t remember is anyone telling you about the elephant poaching and that the existence of elephants is in jeopardy. I remember the first time that I was told that elephants were in danger. After reading my class an “Elephant and Piggie” book, in second grade, Mrs. Seltzer went on to tell us that elephants are being killed for their ivory tusks. I never really thought about the problem unless I was doing something that involved elephants. Which is the problem, not enough people know about the elephant crisis and how are people supposed to do something to change the situation if nobody knows that there has to be