Here we review and discuss different mitigation techniques that have been suggested and are practiced at varying scales. We also seek to provide recommendations that we think are of considerable concern in the future in lights of projected climate change. Providing compensation to the affected people has been a common practice to offset economic losses incurred by the people in most of the elephant range countries. Although compensation schemes temporarily suppress the anti-wildlife sentiments; it, however, does not appear to be a viable solution. It is largely because of severe criticism mainly due to insufficient amount provided, cumbersome procedural process with added transaction cost, ineffective governance, lack of transparency, lack …show more content…
2009, Jadhav and Barua 2012, Barua et al. 2013). Hence, the effectiveness of these uncompensated costs and hidden impacts in lessening the conflict in the long term are questionable as they do not address the underlying cause and merely transfer the risk from one spatial location to the next (Sukumar 1989, 1991). Similarly, trenches of considerable depth and width, and electric fences are the common physical barriers used to curb the elephants from entering farmland and human settlements. Although their effectiveness are largely unexplored in Asia, they however require a considerable cost for establishment and maintenance. Given their high cost for establishment and maintenance accompanied by a varying spatial pattern of crop raiding (Sukumar 1989, Hoare 1999, Kioko et al. 2008, Perera 2009), their applicability and feasibility in fragmented habitats within a human dominated landscape with a large area demanding protection from elephants is dubious (Wijayagunawardane et al. 2016). Moreover, these physical barriers further isolate the already fragmented populations disrupting their migration and gene flow with a negative feedback on long-term survival. Additionally, reports from Africa do not deliver an encouraging story to a long-term effectiveness of economically costly electric fences. Evidences suggest that
Elephants primarily modify habitats by damaging vegetation via removing canopy, debarking trees, breaking stems, digging, burrowing, wallowing and trampling many species, which may permanently influence the landscape. They will often push over trees when feeding and peel off large sections of bark. (Haynes, 2012; Tambling et al., 2013). Elephants exhibit a large per capita engineering effect due to their size and ability to easily knock down trees therefore when herd densities are high there is an additive impact on ecosystems (Jones et al., 1997b). Elephants exhibit lengthy generation times of 25 years, meaning they can have a long-term effect on the environment (Fritz, 2017). This combined with their destructive behaviour means they can cause local extinctions of plant species, which is then linked to impacts on vegetation, other mammals and the overall community (Tambling et al., 2013). They have a strong propensity to convert woodland to grassland and shrubland because of their removal of trees, which can cause a ripple effect on food webs, herbivore communities and to the species community (Coverdale et al., 2016; Chamaille-Jammes et al., 2007; Fritz, 2017) It has been seen that when elephants are removed woodland will increase (Omeja et al., 2014).
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.”
An urgent issue, climate change is undoubtedly a sweeping global dilemma of paramount importance. Though most people are aware of this fact, many either choose to ignore it, or acknowledge it, but take no action against it. Those who do choose to take action usually attempt to combat climate change by using the methods that are most commonly discussed: becoming more energy efficient, recycling, and reducing emissions through using more sustainable transportation. Though these actions are helpful, they are not the most efficient way to counter climate change.
Global warming is the environmental and social changes caused by emissions of greenhouse gases. Human activities have been the primary cause of this significant change, resulting with extreme weather conditions, increasing sea levels, and climate changes. In this paper I will compare and contrast natural versus anthropogenic climate changes of global warming, mitigation strategies, mitigation effectiveness, policy implications, costs, and address some policy changes to help stabilize global climate.
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.
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The official title of the world’s largest land dwelling animal belongs to the elephant, more specifically, the African elephant. Elephants also are some of the most deadly animals, which therefore increase the danger of human and elephant interactions. The more human interactions occur, the more deaths result, whether it is the elephant or the human who dies. These animals, surprisingly, are socially apt; their trunk is used for more than just eating and drinking- it is used for socializing. They are complex animals who live in large familial herds-females stay with their family throughout their entire lives while males only stay for approximately fifteen years (Elephant Protection, 1). Elephants possess a great memory and only forget what they learn occasionally and rarely, giving way to the “an elephant never forgets” saying (Maloiy, 178c). Despite how many people use the beloved saying, elephants may not be around much longer due to the shortened life span and increased mortality rates. Due to their incisor teeth, tusks, being extremely expensive and profitable, they are being murdered for the wealth they carry. This, coupled with the life span shortening because of malicious treatments and brutal practices reduces the life span of the African elephant from 56 to 16 years and the Asian elephant from 42 to 19 years (Elephant Protection, 1). According to what the statistics show, elephants may be following their ancestors to their death. Of the group of mammals called
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,
Poaching has been increasing for many years. The number of poaching cases throughout the decades have been increasing. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, the ivory demand grew drastically making poaching for ivory increase throughout these years (Stiles, 309). CITES recommended to use a system called Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) in which helped monitor the illegal killing of elephants (Stiles, 312). Also, to try and qualify the number of those elephants killed by poachers (Scriber). The system has been working well that now monitors between 30 and 40 percent of the elephant population
We have all heard statistics over how unmitigated global warming can lead to rising sea levels, increased temperatures, lower rates of precipitation. The Congressional Budget Office recently found that climate change, if unmitigated, would create costly damage not only to the United States’s economy, but also to the world as a whole (source). Despite a scientific and general consensus that climate change is real and a problem, actual committed action against climate change has been disappointingly slow, until recently. We also know the cause of climate change. The United States EPA finds that “Carbon dioxide accounts for most of the nation’s emissions and most of the increase since 1990” (EPA). What we don’t know is a solution.
Elephants have been victims of not just the incessant poaching but also of the civil wars; ultimately making them to fight back. The killing case have gone over the roof, as the “singular perversity” (Siebert 353) of the attacks. In India, “nearly one thousand people have been killed by elephants between 2000 and 2004” (Siebert 353). Several frequent attacks were recorded in Africa and other villages where the denizens were forced to evacuate their houses. ‘nearly one thousand’ which accentuates the gravity of the situation in 4 years had gained a lot of attention from the elephants researchers. Seibert’s prime third perspective, Gay Bradshaw, Oregon State psychologist, claims that that “everybody pretty much agrees that the relationship between elephants and people has dramatically changed” (Siebert 353). The choice of diction ‘dramatically’ indicates that elephants are not being violent towards human beings but they are also doing it intentionally. Dramatic behavior changes over the years are now being explained in the elephants. “Bradshaw and several colleagues argued that today’s elephant populations are suffering from a form of chronic stress, a kind of species-wide trauma” (Siebert 354), due to “decades of poaching and habitat loss” (Siebert 354). Elephants are becoming more destructive and Bradshaw looked into combining “traditional research into elephant behavior with insights about trauma drawn from
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.
C. The illegal poaching of elephants have a great influence in local community . Such as the economy affecting restaurants ,hotels,, rentals and othe attractions .Many situation it can lead to a tourist boycott .
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
There are many ways in which we can slow and even stop the Greenhouse effect. More public