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    Imagine you are this beautiful elephant peacefully drinking water from the waterhole among other African animals and then you hear gun shots firing everywhere. You are running for your life when suddenly everything becomes pitch black, then you open your eyes and see a man with a gun pointing at your head laughing as you lay dying. The general point is that almost all animals are getting to the brink of extinction or are either being tagged as an endangered species by the IUCN Red List. The IUCN

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    informing him that a rogue elephant has been causing damage in the city. Orwell heads for the affected area. Along the way, villagers explain that the elephant is not wild, but rather a domesticated one that has had a "must" attack. "Must" occurs when domesticated elephants, held in chains, break their restraints and go crazy. The Burmese have been unable to contain the elephant. His manager, chased him in the wrong direction and is now twelve hours away. In its uproar, the elephant has destroyed public

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    Elephant and Gazelle African elephant The African elephant whose common name is the Savanna/ African Elephant, is beautiful and fascinating animal that is found in Eastern, Southern and West Africa, in dense forests, mopane and miombo woodlands, Sahelian scrub or deserts. The genus is Loxodonta. The species is africana. The kingdom is Animalia. The phylum is Chordata. The class is Mamalia. The order is Proboscidea. The family is Elephantidea. The life-cycle for the African elephant

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    October 2016 Elephant Poaching Wildlife hunting is a big business a 2013 estimate valued the illegal poaching trade in Africa worth 17 billion dollars a year and growing. While elephant poaching between 1800’s - 1999 and 2000’s and up have some similarities they also have a wide variety of differences. Elephant poaching in 1800’s-1999 was done to meet the worldwide demands, but elephant poaching in 2000’s and above was done for sport. Elephant poaching is wrong and shouldn’t be done. Elephant poaching

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    ivory was, without a doubt, the best in the world. For a long time Asian ivory was used, because it was much easier to obtain, though the ivory was harder to shape, more likely to break, and less attractive. The Asian ivory came from tusks of elephants that were largely different

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    ivory has skyrocketed in China. The board explains that there have been some strides made in the right direction, but not nearly enough has been done. The population of elephants in Tanzania alone has lost nearly ninety percent of their population (The Editorial Board). The tragedy does not end there, all over Africa elephants are being murdered for nothing more than their teeth. There need to be more sanctions placed in China and Africa to ban the illegal import and export of ivory. China has

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    Living life as a circus animal is not as entertaining as it seems. If people in the public were aware of how these animals are being mistreated, circuses would lose their shows. Some people find elephants balancing on their trunks or lions jumping through fire entertaining. These animals suffer. We are curious on how these animals are being trained to perform crucial and painful tricks. Some of us think positive about circus. Others, wonder why the animal tamers are holding whips instead of treats

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    whipped, muzzled, or starved. Now that the truth is out, it is up to the public to do what is right and not support such a cruel institution. When people say circus, one of the first images that come to mind are elephants. The Ringling Brothers Circus has always been famed for their elephants being especially well trained. How do they train them? They “break” them—which is to oppress

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    Approximately 100 elephants are killed every day most purely for ivory but the african government has started to conduct the burning of ivory how ever some suspect that this is all just a clever ploy so the people running the destruction of ivory are just stealing ivory and getting rich/richer, that is essentially what but it's a bit crazy to think so but we should be cautious if we continue to tread down this path just in case somes worries are true. It takes 1800 degrees to burn .25 ounces of ivory

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    model explains that “When there is an economic problem in which every individual tried to reap the greatest benefit from a given source.” (Root) So in Africa there is a huge demand for animals and their products. Some of the most demanded stuff is elephant ivory, meat, hides and rhinoceros

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