Elephant Island

The swift annihilation of elephants and rhinos in Africa due to poaching has become a crucial international issue in the recent years. The previous explosion of the commercial poaching in Africa took place in the 70s and lasted until the late 80s when international agreements and wildlife protection programs helped to improve the crisis. As a result, poaching in Africa subsided for a brief while. However, around the same time, China and Vietnam saw an enormous increase in the demand for the…

The exhibit Evolving Planet showed how one period led to another. It gives evidence of changes and adaptionsThrough each time a person can see that there were similarities between animals and how they adapted to fit into that period. In the Quaternary Period during the Ice Age I saw what was called the Giant Ground Sloth which is a much bigger version of sloth that we see today. They evolved in the South American grasslands and then later migrated to North America. They could survive cooler…

trying to argue what they are doing is not wrong. They have been in recent lawsuits regarding to the animals that they preserve held at their facilities. Another issue that is going on right now is ivory being taken from elephants. All the way across the world in Africa and Asia elephants are being killed for their tusk. These torturous people are on the side of animals captivity is for the better. Animal captivity to various amounts of people is very wrong and should be…

In “Justice for elephants”, Natalie Prosin uses imagery, diction, and ethos to convey that elephants are not meant to be “property” but, as she states, should have “ common rights.” In the beginning of the article, Natalie Posin shows some harsh imagery in her favorite movie “Dumbo.” “ There is a heart-wrenching scene where Dumbo is being cradled by his mother, who is chained inside a boxcar.” It really shows a negative image when a disney movie shows Dumbo’s mother chained in a boxcar. It…

and Richard Parker start to explore the island and see that there are a lot of them. Since there aren’t any predators on the island Richard Parker goes around eating them and Pi could be vegetarian again. He later on realises that the island is a predator. Pi sees that there are things that in the night come to kill and consume you. When he sees a piece of fruit he takes off the layers and finds a human tooth right inside. Then he realises how unsafe the island is, then takes Richard Parker and…

Eastern Gorillas are, according to the IUCN Red List, labeled critically endangered. Why did I choose the Eastern Gorilla? What are their major threats? What are people doing to help the gorillas? How can we help, and what are my ideas? I want to help the Eastern Gorillas, and stop their major threats, show what others are doing, and tell how we can help and my idea. Why did I choose the Eastern Gorilla? I chose this animal because I personally love gorillas. There are six great ape…

“Activists say an elephant is being shot for its ivory every 15 minutes” (Dinmore). Throughout the world and the history of it, elephant poaching has become a real problem. The United States has not done very much to prevent this, but more should be done. Elephants are killed everyday for their tusks. In a lot of places there aren’t many elephants left. Without tusks, there is more of a challenge in digging for food and water and defending themselves, so even if they do not die when their tusks…

One of the questions I asked was if the gorillas in Uganda were decreasing in population because of the humans? As I did research, I found that the mountain gorilla population in Uganda has been decreasing for over one hundred years. With further research, I found a different question. I wanted to research how the mountain gorilla population has changed since we discovered we’ve been hunting them almost to the point of extinction? To gather data, I started with the first recorded data of the…

the world we have today, an African Elephant would live longer because Asian elephants have to carry a lot of weight, with causes stress, depression, and arthritis. Also, the population of the African elephant has about 10 to 20x more living species. The elephants do not deserve to die or to be in captivity. Research has found that 40% of tourists of the top nationalities visiting said they had been or were planning to ride an elephant, so captive elephants in Thailand gave rides to almost…

more than just panda rent though. Chester zoo, a small zoo in the U.K. reports, “A major expense in any zoo’s budget is its food bill and Chester Zoo is no different, with mouths to feed ranging from corals in the aquarium through to rhinos and elephants. Our food bill to satisfy these diver appetites approaches £ 1,000 a day [$1,386.10]”(Zoo Nutrition 1). Chester zoo is paying over a thousand dollars a day to feed animals, of those that include coral reef. Its ridiculous that money can be…