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poaching in Africa. The rampant, ceaseless poaching of elephants for ivory may have, at long last, met it's match—and it stands on four legs. Over the past few years, tracker dogs have teamed up with anti-poaching enforcement units in the fight against poachers throughout Africa. It's a widely known fact that poaching has been detrimental to the welfare and very existence of elephants. Despite countless efforts to thwart poaching and ivory trade missions, the number of elephant deaths at the hands of

The CITES is an international agreement that entered in force the 1st of July 1975. It is designed to prevent any threat, caused by international trade, towards the survival of specimens of wild animals and plants. The global scale of the trading network nowadays imposes this convention to have an international scope, thus to include 181 parties protecting more than 35,000 species This treaty has 2 main purposes: it aims to improve the working of the Convention, also, ensure that CITES policy developments

The myth of King Midas was about how he wanted to be rich so he wished for everything he touched to turn to gold, and it came true, but he lost what was important to him because of it. Not only does Greek mythology show this, but so does African mythology. The website a-gallery.de tells about the myth titled “Elephants.” “Elephants” is an African myth about the origin of elephants and why they’re as intelligent as humans. This myth follows the story of a poor man who tries to find Ivonya-Ngia, which

Persuasive argument Culling is a method of killing animals for population control but does not kill so many elephants so that they become extinct. The African elephants grow up to 4 m tall and weigh 7000 KG's. Adult elephants consume 130 Kg's of food a day. African elephants live on average for 55 to 60 years in the wild. Food consumption for the average elephant life span is 2,609,750 kg's. In South Africa the Kruger National Park has more than 12,500 elephants 5000 more than the sustainable

Elephants Endangered? The average person’s knowledge of elephants consumes of the facts that elephants are the largest land animal and are supposedly very intelligent. Most people don’t realize that elephants contribute an extraordinary amount to our ecosystem, and that without them the effects could be felt worldwide. That’s not even the worst of it: the saddening part is that people are unaware that elephants have become endangered solely through human actions. Why do I care so much that an animal

Heart of Darkness Study Questions Chapter 1 1. The setting of the story begins on the Nellie, a ship. The turn of the tide is significant because it gives the men on board extra time to talk, and Marlow begins telling his story. In addition, symbolically, the turning of the tide conveys a change, and perhaps, foreshadowing of the story. The author spends a lot of time dealing with light because it is the main symbol in the novella. Light and darkness are universal symbols that represent good and

argument is not whether poaching is a problem or not, it is obviously a problem, it is an argument on how humanity should go about stopping poaching. One side of that argument believes that going after the people behind poaching, those who buy poached ivory for example, is more important than stopping poachers on the ground . They would be more likely to support a United Nations sanction on poaching than providing funding for ranger groups. The other side of the argument is that the effort to stop poaching

There is no elephant stuffed animals, children's books with elephants, or elephants at the zoo. This may be the case in just a few years. The number of elephant fatalities is rising every year and presents itself as a global issue. Not only does the ivory poaching industry impact elephants, it impacts the entire ecosystem. If elephant poaching continues at this alarming rate, there is a high probability of extinction within the next couple of years. There is a need for stricter laws to be intact and

Anti-Poaching Foundation (Problem). Poaching rates, as large as they are, are growing rapidly and have yet to slow down in the past years. People are willing to do whatever it takes to poach an animal, since the amount ivory sells for has grown tremendously. There are many different alternatives to ivory so there is no reason for the poaching rates to rise. Most people don’t even realize that poaching affects our ecosystems in numerous ways. To stop poaching would be to end all the suffering these animals feel

and the populations of elephants began to recover; CITES also secured an agreement to ban the international trade in ivory. Since January 1990, the international trade of ivory has been illegal; nevertheless, poaching is still greatly present in African countries (Rochon, 2013). Supporting Argument #1: To the millions of people who live around the world, elephants may not mean anything special. To the African population and wildlife, however, elephants are a very necessary part of their lives. It