This paper will provide an overview of some of the available research available that will illustrate the impact elephants have on their African environment. Elephant populations in Africa steadily declined for much of the twentieth century due to habitat loss and poaching (Wittemyer…
Wild Life The elephant population has steadily declined over the decade due to the demand for ivory. However, it is not just the elephant population that is declining. In the article “World Wildlife ‘falls by 58% in 40 years’” the author, Rebecca Morelle, believes the animal population has decreased gradually over the last 40 years.…
The effect of those who are infringing on these two species are now proving to not only be bad for them but also for the people and elephants suffering, causing scientist and researchers to scurry for a…
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.…
Poaching is bad and it needs to stop. I think that poaching is a big problem and they need to stop because animals deserve to live , local economies will suffer when animals are poached, wildlife rangers are being killed for helping animals. It will be good if they stop poaching because it’s bad and manys animals are being killed. They will need to make them a safe place to live so they won’t be killed. Also the reason why they need a better place to live is because they are being killed for no reason.…
Zainab Jafri Mr. Ballinger ENG-101-ML 27 October, 2016 Technologically Dependent Society Michael Moss’s The Extraordinary Science of Junk Food, An Elephant Crackup? by Charles Siebert, and Cathy Davidson’s Project Classroom Makeover all report that as society is progressing in a more innovative direction, we are using technology and advanced research to better our way of living. The Millennial generation is slowly becoming aware of how toxic processed foods truly are, therefore advancement in technology and medicine might make society healthier. As we are applying research to understand the congruence between animals and humans, the future might provide a collaborative environment where humans and animals will learn how to positively live…
Proliferation of Poaching Lions have been disappearing, populations have been going down, and not many people are doing anything about it. They are one of the most magnificent animals known to man, and they have fallen to an unspeakable crime that has almost wiped out an entire species of animals. Lions are the second biggest cat in the world. Their scientific name is Pathera Leo. The average lion can weigh up to 265 to 420 pounds and can be as long as 6 1/2 feet long.…
Another initiative that seeks to protect Africa's elephant populations from poaching activities is the Tanzanian organization Africa's Wildlife Trust. In 1998 environmental scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst proposed the concept of poaching as an environmental crime, defining any activity as illegal that contravenes the laws and regulations established to protect renewable natural resources including the illegal harvest of wildlife with the intention of possessing, transporting, consuming or selling it and using its body parts. The following violations and offenses are considered acts of poaching: Sociological and criminological research on poaching indicates that in North America people poach for commercial gain, home consumption, trophies, pleasure and thrill in killing wildlife, or because they disagree with certain hunting regulations, claim a traditional right to hunt, or have negative dispositions toward legal authority. Millions of protected plants are illegally collected each year. As trophy hunting became popular, poaching activity, in particular commercial poaching, increased in the Western…
Africa's Elephant population could become extinct since the current rate of species decline is 8%, meaning that elephant numbers could become 175,000 in nine years. Scientists calculated that the elephant death rate is higher than the birth rate. Moreover, the Elephant population has plummeted greater than 75% in a decade, in the Tanzania Serous Game Reserve, and Mozambique's Niassa Reserve. Chase and his team counted a single group of 36 elephants, which it is the last pack in the Horn of Africa. Many elephants live in northern Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe which those three countries account greater than 60% of all elephants tallied in the Great Elephant Census.…
“At the end of 2013, there were an estimated 500,000 African elephants living in the world. 95 percent of the elephant population has been killed during the last 100 years”. Human activity is leading to extinction of many species. While some laws are banning poaching, it continues to become a severe issue. Kenya, for instance, is struggling to protect elephan.…
The story “Shooting an Elephant” the author talks about him getting forced into doing something he didn't want to. It all happen when he was told that an elephant was out of control he had to do something before the elephant caused more harm to the public. He got a rifle and headed where the elephant was located at. The elephant was there peacefully eating showing no signs of danger. He didn't want to shot the elephant and more people were coming behind waiting for the elephant to be shot.…
Animal Abuse There are a lot of facts and studies about animal abuse and most, if not all lead to connection with other types of abuse. People do not know all the types of abuse or what they mean. The effects on the animals are long term and can be severe. People do not know all the laws that there are against it. Whell people we will find out.…
The population went from many millions to a few hundred thousand. Today, elephants are protected, but poachers still find ways to kill them for their tusks ("How Animals Become Extinct.",…
Wildlife crime is a particular group of crime. It does not fit "clean" into the different traditional groups, or labeling, often used to describe crimes. groups such as those against people or property crimes. wildlife crimes are sometimes thought about/believed to be victimless because an (able to be seen or picked out) hurt party or victim, at least in the form of a human being, is not present or filing a complaint. However, it has been argued that in the case of wildlife crime, like other victimless crime, (community of people/all good people in the world) is the true victim because these criminal acts lead to harm to, if not the complete destruction of, whole species of animals and plants, by that/in that way affecting hunters, nature (people…
The True Power of Imperialism George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do the job, Orwell shoots the elephant against his better judgment due to the pressure to uphold the reputation of the British. “Shooting an Elephant” shows how imperialism can result in undesirable behavior and inflect harm on others. Early in the story Orwell states right away that “Imperialism is an evil thing” (Paragraph 2, Page 1).…