The Ivory Trade Affecting Elephants

The ivory trade affects elephants in many ways such as, the elephants could go extinct, they get harmed, and they are important to our ecosystem. Poaching the elephants is illegal now and people still poach. Ivory is what an elephant's tusk is made of. A lot of people kill elephants to make money from the ivory.

If the humans keep killing the elephants mainly for the ivory then, the elephants could could go extinct. The elephants could get harmed because of poaching or, because of humans cutting off the elephant’s tusk. The poachers get the ivory and after, they make things with them and sell it for an inexpensive price, but they killed the animal for a big price. An elephant uses its tusks for defense and if they do not have their tusks