Elephant poaching causes a major crisis to their ecosystem because they are the keystone species. “As a keystone species, they help balance all the other species in their ecosystem, opening up forest land to create firebreaks and grasslands, digging to create water access for other animals...” (National Geographic). Poaching is a major issue of why elephants are endangered, so looking at why they’ve done it can correct them from continuing this practice. You often see poaching currently used for economic purposes, but rather for the past 4,000 years you would often see it used for cultural practices and/or national icons. Africa is an underdeveloped country, and because of that they seek textiles as a workforce because it’s inexpensive
