Ivory

CHINA AND HONG KONG China is banning all ivory trade and processing activities by the end of 2017 signaling an end to the world's primary legal ivory market and a major boost to international efforts to tackle the elephant-poaching crisis. 23wAfter China made the announcement last year; the price of ivory in Asia fell. This made the ivory business unprofitable. Some wanted to get rid of the stock but others are waiting for prices to go up again. When the price falls, the poaching doesn’t stop as

herd is blissfully unaware of is that poachers are quietly stalking them with murderous intent. This herd of elephants has a plethora of “white gold”. These poachers are after only one thing from the elephants, they are after their tusk made of ivory. By the end of the day the herd will practically be obliterated with only a small number of lucky survivors. Unfortunately, poaching elephants is not an atypical event throughout man African countries.

help and what is being done to help. Elephants are being poached for their ivory. Countries around the world are increasing ivory buying. This is because more elephants have been poached and

seizing the poaching, ivory trade, and habitat takeover. The population consists of two main species of Elephant, the Asian and the African. The Asian elephant is divided into three subspecies: the Indian, Sumatran, and the Sri Lankan (“Asian Elephant”). African elephants are split into

last form of technology that Cress and Zommers (2014) describe is DNA testing. Genetic sequencing can be used to identify wildlife body parts such as ivory tusks. Once identified, it can confirm a sub-species, region of origin, or other useful data. DNA testing is a constantly growing filed that will continue to have uses in the fight to end illegal ivory trading and poaching. With all these different types of technology, there is more hope for scientists and policy makers to be able to not only identify

News Report:                             August 10, 2017 Title:  Wooly Mammoth Ivory is On the Rise – And It’s Hurting Elephants Type:             printed article               viewable media,  podcast,  TED talk                 other, describe: One sentence topic summary: Elephant extinction is on the rise because poachers constantly kill them for their tusks. Citation (MLA format): Danzeisen, Eve. “Wooly Mammoth Ivory Is On the Rise - And It's Hurting Elephants.” Lady Freethinker, African Wildlife

also follows suit with the theory of utilitarianism. The government is holding a large stockpile of ivory tusks from decades of collecting (DocuMatForEdu1, 2016). All the tusks range in size, so the tusks were taken from elephants of all sizes, from youngling to mature adults. These diverse collection of tusks are kept by the government because it sees value in it. The government notices the booming ivory trade industry, and they believe selling the stockpile one day will bring profit to the nation.

nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/140618-elephants-ivory-dna-poaching-africa-science-world/ SUMMARY: Samuel Wasser, from the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle, has spent the past 15 years comparing and matching DNA samples from elephant ivory and dung in an attempt to locate where the most poaching and smuggling is happening. This research led Wasser and his team to report that since 2006, the smuggled ivory has come from predominantly two areas: the combined

poaching of elephants started in the late 1800’s and is still happening today. People are slaughtering these majestic animals for their ivory tusks. Ivory has been sold on the black market for millions of dollars. Before the start of ivory poaching there were millions of elephants in the world in both Africa and India, but today because of the hunting for ivory, there are barely any of these giants left in the wild. Throughout history Europeans have been moving in on central African states to make

discovers the oil painting in the Station(Conrad, pp.25). Marlow attention towards the painting shows his intelligence of the artist's name(Conrad, pp.25). It is because of the oil image that Marlow desire to get to know Kurtz (Conrad, pp.26). After ivory and palm oil were discovered at the Congo then rubber was invented. Everyone wanted this product because it made a excellent