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    The elephant known as the African Elephant, is the largest land animal. You’ll be amazed at what you’ll discover about the African elephant's tusks. So sit back and get ready to hear about their habitat, places they live, environment, food, habits, their intelligence, and echolocation. Most African Elephants live in Sub Saharan Africa and the rain forest of central and west Africa, also the Sabel desert in Mali. The Asian…

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    Poaching Elephants

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    Africa Ivory is used for piano key, sculptures, and jewelry . Hundreds of elephants are being killed for their ivory, because of this they are becoming an endangered species. All over Africa different organization are trying to stop the trade of ivory and the extinction of the African elephant. They poaching of elephants for ivory has been going on for centuries, and is even said to be the cause of the northern african elephant extinction. King and queens thousands of years ago had ivory.…

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    Elephants are large land animals that roam these lands. These majestic creatures that could use your help. Learn more in this informational article. Elephants are the largest land animals in the world. They use their ears as fans. When they wave their ears it cools them off. Another thing cools them off is taking a bath. Elephants take baths in water and in mud. The elephants suck water or mud into their trunk and then spray it onto their backs. Sometimes they spray others from their parade.…

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    Elephant Helping Trunk

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    The story of the elephant that can lend a helping trunk. This can lend a helping trunk by using their physical strength and strong trunk. The elephant can also lend a helping trunk by working together with his other elephant friends to lift a fallen companion “inhibit pulling,”and “dual rope exam”. Also statements from scientists who are more familiar with elephant behavior in the wild question the researcher’s assertion that elephants cooperate. Other species like chimpanzees, hyenas, rooks,…

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    African Elephants

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    are being killed illegally for their ivory which is their tusks. Lots of poachers were armed with grenades and AK-47s, they killed more than 300 elephants at Bouba Ndjida National Park, Cameroon, in 2012. Poachers have killed 100,00 elephants in the last 3 years. The elephant population has declined by 64 percent in a decade and at this rate they will be extinct soon. Ivory is a very expensive material and is illegal to sell, but people are still selling ivory on the blackmarket for $1,500 a…

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    The ivory trade is the illegal and often lucrative trade in the ivory tusks of mostly African elephants. Elephant poaching is at the extent where the world has seen its worst in a decade, and capture of ivory is at its highest. It is one of the primary reasons why the elephant population, especially African elephants, is declining at a fast rate. This trade has now currently led to the endangerment of African elephants, resulting in the ban of hunting African elephants, and the selling of ivory.…

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    Yeng Feng Glan, a 66-year-old Chinese woman known to many as the Ivory Queen, and two Tanzanian men were taken into custody by Tanzanian officials on October 8th, 2015. She had returned to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from her home in Uganda which gave Tanzania’s National and Transnational Serious Crimes Investigation Unit or NTSCIU the chance to arrest her. It is believed that she has been in the Tanzanian Ivory Trade since 2006. A local paper reports that Yeng has been accused of smuggling 706…

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    Between 35,00-50,00 elephants are trafficked a year. Every fifteen minutes an elephant is killed just for their ivory. Trafficking elephants is illegal in every country in Africa. There are more tigers in people backyards than in the wild.Over one hundred years ago there used to be 100,000 tigers in the world now there are only about 3,200 tigers left and only 7%…

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    In the passage “End All Ivory Sales Worldwide”, James A. Baker III is persuading his readers that the illegal murdering of elephants for ivory needs to come to an end. He uses many different methods to try to persuade his audience to get involved with banning the trading of ivory. Baker gives evidence by giving facts along with examples to support his claims. He uses reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence. He also uses stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice…

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    1. Vignette On September 4, 1997, James Matthew Garrison was born prematurely in a hospital. His parents are Tyler and Anya Garrison (a young couple 23 and 27 years old) who unexpectedly conceived James on New Year’s Eve at a party at an upscale hotel in New York City. Tyler and Anya Garrison are a wealthy couple and are well-known in their professions. Tyler is a successful entrepreneur in the technology field, and Anya is a world famous, traveling fashion designer and model. They are both…

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