Ivory

By Dominick Mezzapesa - Wildlife Planet News After decades of Ignoring an international ban on trading poached ivory, it 's time to give Japan a beatdown for their elephant poching crimes. Wildlife Planet has focused it 's attention, and rightfully so on China. It 's our poster child for the mass slaughtering of Elephants, Tigers and Rhinos. Without a doubt it has earned much of the blame for the killing of 96 elephants a day across Africa. China 's role in the butchering of Dogs and cats for…

the ivory in their tusks. Every year it is estimated that over 100,000 elephants are killed and every kill brings elephants close to extinction, which is why there should be stricter consequences for poaching. Currently, in countries around the world, there is a ban and set consequences for the trade of ivory, yet there is no law specifically illegalizing the killing of the elephants. Therefore, trophy hunters, who are interested in the size of the kill rather than the value of the ivory,…

At the rate that poaching is transpiring, elephants will be extinct by the year 2020 (Mosbergen). The population of elephants has drastically decreased. Ivory-seeking poachers have killed 100,000 African elephants in just three years, which is roughly 100 elephants everyday. This ecological impact is immense, and if nothing is done to stop poaching, elephants will become extinct before we know it. Poaching is a serious problem, especially in Africa and Asia and it takes place for commercial…

human greed and the selfish desire for ivory trinkets” (8). In order to meet the poachers’ own needs, they’re killing elephants. Why? They can’t really say it’s for money because the poachers aren’t even making anything compared to the worth of the ivory itself. Peter Canby, author of “Elephant Watch,” from a magazine The New Yorker, asserts, “ The poachers themselves are paid much less-only a hundred or…

the Indonesian island of Sumatra. However, the Sumatran Elephant population has severely dropped. “They have lost 80% of their natural habitat to deforestation for palm oil plantations.” (a-z-animals.com). Poachers are also hunting them for their ivory tusks which is killing them off as well. “In 2012, the Sumatran Elephant was changed from “endangered” to “critically endangered” because half of it’s population has been lost in one generation.” (a-z-animals.com). Unfortunately, palm oil…

for their body parts and are used for medicine in Asia.” “Elephants experienced a severe population decline in the late 1980s due to illegal killing (poaching) for their ivory tusks”(US Fish and Wildlife Service) “The threat of extinction caused by poaching is real, and the losses are staggering. During the 1970s and 1980s, ivory poachers killed 93 percent of the elephants in Zambia’s North Luangwa National Park.” “Birds, monkeys, and other animals are captured and sold as pets; predators that…

sees first hand, the immense wealth that the ivory trade brings into the Station that makes his aunt and inversely him, their money. But he also sees the workers for the Company, whom Marlow sees essentially just as slaves and even compares them to “faithless pilgrims. He sees that if they are pilgrims, to some sort of religion, then it is the ivory trade. While they remain faithless to the religions cause, they still follow their commitments to the ivory out of pure economic necessity. The…

They may become too old or their habitat may not contain enough resources to support them. So, if the elephants are going to die anyway, why does it matter if poachers kill them a little earlier and then use their ivory for benefit? Forbes states in its article When You Ban the Sale of Ivory, You Ban Elephants that “Elephant poaching is rampant throughout Africa.…

are becoming extinct and ways we can help. The gentle giants have been roaming the earth for thousands of years, but in 1986 they became classified as vulnerable and then in 1996 they finally became endangered. They became endangered due to their ivory. Poaching of the…

Poaching is a worldwide catastrophe that not only affects the animals that are being poached but also the environment and the people around them. Poaching is the illegal act of over-exploitation of animals and the illegal trading and selling of them whether it be for killing them for certain parts or just the whole body in general. Africa is a continent in which its animals and people that have been strongly affected by poaching and it is now starting to change African economy and the…