The Elephant Crisis Fund is improving the conservation of elephants through reducing poaching, trafficking, and demand for ivory, but needs to improve their methods through including indigenous people’s ideas and stopping the continuation of “Othering” indigenous people. The Elephant Crisis Fund is working to conserve elephants because their population numbers have dropped from three million to around 300,000 in the wild, with their numbers steadily decreasing. In Sub-Saharan Africa elephants are being poached for their tusks and sold mostly to China and Vietnam because of the business of the ivory trade. Elephants need to be saved because they are keystone species, which means they are crucial to the biodiversity of Africa as many other
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Elephants spread seeds for plants which in turn provides habitats and food for other species. Without elephants, many plants wouldn’t be able to be spread and grow harming the lives of many species. The Elephant Crisis Fund has been successful in its projects of stopping poaching, collecting snares, and prosecuting traffickers. In nature reserves across Africa there are over 160 projects being funded to support eco-rangers in the reserves, find trafficker pathways to other countries, and research in how to stop the black market ivory trade. While the fund has been successful it could improve in various aspects. The Elephant Crisis Fund could focus on monetary incentives for the local people to stop poaching and receive the benefits of eco-tourism to gain support of their conservation techniques. The fund should also focus on the love aspect of conservation and work with the indigenous people to improve their lives and make it easier to live side-by-side with elephants as they can be destructive to crops and resources. Lastly, to gain support for their cause the Elephant Crisis Fund has used celebrity endorsements which continue the “Othering” of indigenous people and romanticizing Africa. For the continuation of conservation of wildlife in Africa, the indigenous people must be included in the conservation process to allow for the continued conservation without western presence staying in
Elephants spread seeds for plants which in turn provides habitats and food for other species. Without elephants, many plants wouldn’t be able to be spread and grow harming the lives of many species. The Elephant Crisis Fund has been successful in its projects of stopping poaching, collecting snares, and prosecuting traffickers. In nature reserves across Africa there are over 160 projects being funded to support eco-rangers in the reserves, find trafficker pathways to other countries, and research in how to stop the black market ivory trade. While the fund has been successful it could improve in various aspects. The Elephant Crisis Fund could focus on monetary incentives for the local people to stop poaching and receive the benefits of eco-tourism to gain support of their conservation techniques. The fund should also focus on the love aspect of conservation and work with the indigenous people to improve their lives and make it easier to live side-by-side with elephants as they can be destructive to crops and resources. Lastly, to gain support for their cause the Elephant Crisis Fund has used celebrity endorsements which continue the “Othering” of indigenous people and romanticizing Africa. For the continuation of conservation of wildlife in Africa, the indigenous people must be included in the conservation process to allow for the continued conservation without western presence staying in