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Shipping Costs and Ivory Smuggling,” he also shows how African elephant ivory seizures have increased over recent years. For his article, Moyle (2014) collected and used data from UNEP to make a graph showing total seizures of African elephant ivory from 1996 until 2012. His graph also shows the weight of the ivory from the seizures (see figure 3). From Moyle’s graph, one can see that the most ivory seizures in more recent years have been dominated with ivory that is >1000kg. Moyle (2014) explains how increasing poaching rates are reflected in the increase of seizure rates of raw ivory. The rapid increase in ivory seizures >1000kg over recent years is…

FAITHFUL ELEPHANTS by Yukio Tsuchiya Reading Response “Faithful Elephants” by Yukio Tsuchiya is the story of Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo during World War Two, at a time where the city was constantly bombarded. In fear of bombs hitting the zoo and freeing animals through the city, the Army orders the zoo to kill all its dangerous animals, including its elephants: John, Tonky, and Wanly. In the passage, the author uses figurative language to describe the elephants’ life, death, and pain. He further…

Elephant ivory has been in demand from Victorian England and Asia for decorative purposes (Marston et al., 190). According to the International Union of Conservation of Nature, ivory trade is three times as large as it was in 1998. Most ivory is traded from Africa to Asia (Fisher, 2013). The connections made between countries discloses a roadmap of the needs and demands of people globally. Even though globalization reflects the political, economic and environmental linkages between countries, it…

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 Trophy Hunting Dilemma A small herd of wild African Elephants wander upon a shallow lagoon no deeper than three feet and smaller in circumference than a standard classroom. A towering female submerges the end of it’s trunk in the water and from beneath its legs, a calf stumbles into the water. The baby elephant throws it’s trunk back flinging water onto the rest of the herd. The other members of the herd let out a high pitched trumpeting sound and wade into the shallow water. Scenes like…

show. Among these animals, the most iconic of them all, are the Asian and African elephants. Generations of Americans have come to know…

The elephant in the village of the blind The elephant in the village of the blind is a traditional Indian story about a village where everyone was blind. A traveler came to the village with an elephant. The villagers did not know what an elephant was and the traveler asked them to see for themselves. Since none of the villagers could see, they had to touch the animal and draw their conclusion on what the elephant could be. Several villagers went and touched the animal. They all formed their…

Thailand can say that they used to use elephants to fight wars! Even though they’ve stopped doing that, elephants are still used in construction! You see, Thailand may be small, but it has culture, history, and weird facts just like any other country. Want to know more? มาค้นพบ ในประเทศไทย, or as they say in English, come discover Thailand! Thailand is in Southeast Asia and is shaped like an elephant's head and trunk. It is roughly 200,000 square miles, about 2 times as big as Wyoming. Thailand…

in countries all around this world starving every day and America pays one million dollars a year to stand in front of a cage and look at a panda for five minutes. Zoos cost way 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…

The RHI-SPY and poaching Poaching is a serious crime which needs to be controlled or stopped. Poaching is the greatest current threat to tigers, rhinos, elephants, gorillas and other African and Asian species. (WWF) In the year 2011, 448 rhinos were killed in South Africa alone and the numbers are increasing each year. Every day rhinos are being poached for their horns, and by mid-2012, 300 more had been poached. “Currently a rhino is being butchered every 6 hours in Africa, and the issues…