The Rhino And Elephant Ivory Market

According to an article published by Upfront Magazines, " In Mozambique, the number of people living inside one of the country’s national parks grew to about 35,000 in 2012 from about 21,000 in 2001. The explanation is that the elephants are destroying crops and the only way to stop them is to, you know, destroy them, aka kill the elephants. I think that there should be other ways the farmers take care of the problem. I think they need to think of the big picture when they are about to put the final blow on the elephants. I believe that this is just one thing to add on to the pile for the struggle of surviving for the elephants. But what the real reason the elephants are going extinct is because of poaching,

Elephants effect the quality of habitats of other species by changing food availability, predation risk, habitat selection and competition (Valiex et al., 2011). The decrease in woody vegetation and trees that the elephants cause leads to modified patches of habitat that can either be higher or lower in richness than unmodified areas. This depends on the species present and the number of elephants involved (Valiex et al., 2011). However, often there is a negative impact on woody vegetation as many species experience local extirpation. This impact is seen more in the dry season than wet, elephants preferentially feed on grasses in the wet season because it is nutrient rich, but when grass is not available in the dry season, they browse woody vegetation (Chamaille-Jammes et al., 2007). Herds that graze grasses and defoliate trees often kill the individual plant, which leads to direct effects that go beyond average consumption that the plant cannot recover

Textual Evidence: “Elephants are also losing their habitats—and ancient migratory routes—due to expanding human settlements, plantation development and the construction of infrastructure such as roads, canals and pipelines.”

Elephant populations suffered a drop in numbers that carried the species into the endangered animals list. At the beginning of the twentieth century, about ten million elephants lived in Africa. Presently, the ten million is reduced to half a million because of illegal hunting and habitat loss. Studies of the population show twenty-two thousand were killed in 2012 and twenty-five thousand in 2011. When comparing the death rate to the natural population growth, there is a possibility the largest mammal on Earth could be extinct soon (Vaughan 1). Because the elephant is the largest animal to walk on land, the greatly increasing human population affects the elephant population first. They live in some regions of the world that have the densest human population which continues to grow, which therefore continuously decreases their own population (Bryner 1). As the human population swiftly increases, the elephant population in turn, decreases. This is so because they cannot cohabitate the same living space. Elephants and humans cannot cohabitate because they would kill each other due to the inability to communicate. About population recovery, the Animal wildlife foundation states, “Populations of elephants- especially in Southern and Eastern Africa- that once showed promising signs of recovery could be at risk due to the recent surge in poaching for the illegal ivory trade”(1). Poaching presents one of the main issues that make recovery so difficult for these animals.

Adversaries believe that the extinction of elephants can hardly affect other species. In fact, African Elephants are essential to the survival of other animals who rely on specific conditions to live. Elephants have been proven to be crucial to the habitats of other animals. In the article “Endangered Species Can They Be Saved?”, It is reported that African elephants may not be the only ones in danger. Asian elephants’ habitats are disappearing as a result of the loss of African elephants (Allman, Schrof). The tusks of Asian elephants are normally too small to be recognized by poachers so the only reason they too are disappearing is because of the drop of their African brethren. It has been reported by activists that elephants create salt licks that are used by other animals (About the African Elephant). In the article “Endangered Species Can They Be Saved?”, it is reported that elephants open up grassland and clear the savanna for other grazers (Allman, Schrof). If elephants go extinct, these grazers will be losing their habitats and without elephants, it would take much longer to create them

Because of the poaching of game like the elephant, the number of species will start to diminish. What hunters brought to the villages of Botswana was the money and the meat from the animals to feed the many people that go hungry everyday. Hunters that would take animals such as an elephant wouldn’t take any of the meat for themselves but rather they give all of the meat to the villages in the area. However, when poaching starts to take over, there will be zero meat or money that will be put back into the community. Poachers that kill elephants are only after one thing and that is the ivory from the elephant tusks. After taking the tusks, the elephant is left to rot. Another animal that is sought after by poachers in Botswana is the rhino. The rhino is poached for their horns, which are supposedly an aphrodisiac in China so the demand is high. Because of these effects, groups like SCI are so important to different places around the world. The money brought in by the hunters is used to hire conservation officers to protect the rhinos and elephants and to buy land that will be put into game preserves so the numbers of these species will increase because there aren’t any pressures from hunting or

Because of the sale of illegal ivory so many elephants' lives are put at risk. If the poaching of elephants and ever-growing trade in illegal ivory is to be seriously addressed, part of the solution to this complex problem must be a return to the full ban on the sale of ivory established in 1989 (Bloody Ivory). Between 434,000 and 684,000 African savanna elephants in 18 countries remain, down 30% in the last seven years. Once again levels of poaching and illegal trade have spiraled out of control. Rates of poaching are now the worst they have been since 1989. There are no easy answers, but a total ivory trade ban is the one strategy we know has worked (Mary Rice). Hong Kong seized 779 elephant tusks three days into 2013, over a ton of ivory,

And while some try to save these animals from extinction, others only want to kill them for profit. These poachers have wiped all of the Northern White Rhinos in the wild. They sell the ivory from their horn for large sums of money. Now only 3 Northern White Rhinos survive in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, all have passed the age in which they were able to breed naturally, so they will either become

In Africa, elephants affect the environment by tearing down and trampling certain trees and shrubs across the savannahs. This changes the density and the composition of the trees and other plants which alters the original state of the environment. Such changes influence the way the savannah ecosystem functions. However, the destruction of various plants appeals to many of the grazing species, due to their ability to make

The book includes a clear outline of the history of conservation in Africa, coupled with stories of Africans involved in conservation management. The authors explain the issues around African conservation as well as including their own input and potential solutions. One of the main points presented is that the myth that Africans and wildlife being incompatible must be broken. It is evident that Africans are just as passionate about their wildlife like the rest of the world and the authors try to bring this across to the rest of the world. However, conservationists must make sure that rural people are acknowledged and that they engage in conservation efforts to make sure projects are successful. Due to the age of the book, several issues are more prominent than others, such as habitat loss and overpopulation, and that the solutions to these issues will have changed with the development of technology. Public awareness and the education of issues are now more achievable and effective due to the advancement in communication in the form of social media and the fact many Africans own a mobile phones. The involvement of local communities will always be important in conservation and most of the points brought across in the book about the past will remain relevant. An update or a companion book including discussions of new issues threats

I would take the side of the people who are trying to stop elephant and ivory poaching. Because if it continues the elephants will go extinct soon and we will only be able to see them in zoos. There should at least be 2,000 elephants in the wild. Hunters can hunt other animals for money. Elephants are amazing creatures that do not deserve to be killed just for their tusks so hunters can just make some money. But if they keep killing them they will go extinct and hunters won’t make any more money.

The rhinos are part of their ecosystem and protecting them prevents their destruction. This is possible can be seen in the Journal of Ecology, “rhinos maintain the diverse African grasslands on which countless other species depend. Surprisingly, prior to this study, no one had looked closely rhinos ‘roles in shaping the ecosystem” (Rachel Nuwer, 1-2). Basically the ecosystem is depending of the present of the rhinos because they are complementing the nature. Rhinos are a part of their ecosystem and protecting them prevent the destruction the food hierarchy. As is this problem becomes worse in South Africa because people do not respect the limits in their lives when they hunt the rhinos. These people become criminals and they be a part of the crime organization when they sell the rhinos to people how sell this animal outside to Vietnam. Dealing with people who work illegally trade is awful situation that the authorities need to stop to protect and prevent the destruction of these animals. Vietnam is one the place who works with the rhino horn. The South Africa- Vietnam Rhino Horn Trade Nexus cites, “historically, rhino horn

There are many different species of Elephant in the world besides Asian and African. The Loxodonta cyclotis also known as the African Forest Elephant is one of those species. It belongs to the Kingdom of Animalia, Phylum is chordate, and the class is Mammalia. The family it belongs to is Elephantidae and its genus is Loxodonta. Over 79 percent of the elephant’s population have declined in between 2004 and 2014 due to humans need for ivory (Ruggiero 2017). Currently the remaining Elephants are found either in Gabon or Minkébé National Parks.

Just imagine life without any elephants, wiped out just like the dinosaurs. In the early 1980’s, there were more than a million reported elephants in Africa. Tragically, during that decade, 600,000 elephants were destroyed for ivory products. Today, conceivably no more than 400,000 elephants remain across the continent. Elephants are facing a very real threat of extinction; In fact, the African elephants are listed on the

Endangered species help to gauge the health of ecosystems and can help individuals become more conscious of their environments and conservation issues around the globe. In recent years, various species and subspecies of rhinoceros have become threatened, endangered, and even extinct. One such subspecies, which was not only endangered, but has been declared extinct inhabitat as of June 26, 2013, is Africa's Western black rhino (Lavina, 2013).