Ivory

Ivory trade only becomes harder to stop the longer it continues. While more time passes, newer technologies are being built that make poaching easier and more effective. Thanks to technology such as helicopters, radios, transmitters, night goggles, etc, poachers are able to more easily reach and kill their targets. With highly sophisticated and quickly changing techniques, poachers and illegal traders are able to avoid detection much more easily. However, new technologies have also been built to

Although the CITES banned the poaching of Asian and African elephants and international trade in the mid 1980’s, many organizations have been posting anti-ivory trade promotion on their website (Stiles, 309). Websites such as International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), Born Free Foundation, Care for the Wild International, and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) (Stiles, 309). Many of the southern countries of Africa do not agree with the African elephant ban (Stiles, 309). They’ve been

groups in Africa are funded financially by the illegal sale of ivory, by the slaughter of elephants. Christy questions the idea of using counterfeit elephant tusks with enabled gps - to hunt down the individuals whom kill these elephants, exploring their motives, and to discover the routes taken by them. Christy goes on to state how the economical downfall of Africa, enabled resources to kill elephants, other countries desire for ivory, and a crippling governement have factored into the circumstances

largest animals on the planet. They are native to 37 African countries. There are two species of African elephants-the Forest elephant and the Savanna elephant. These majestic creatures are rapidly declining in numbers due to illegal poaching. The ivory trade has made African elephants an endangered species. The NPR reports that a three-year study, called the Great Elephant Census, shows that the numbers of Savanna elephants has dropped by 30 percent from 2007 to 2014. In just seven-years the number

Think of the last time you saw a tiger rug or an ivory figurine, even on television. This is a cause of illegal behavior that is called poaching. The United States is among the largest consumers of ivory, according to Jani Actman. Even though ivory is at an almost total ban in the United States people are still purchasing these accessories. In the advertisement the creator used transfer method to make the person seeing this advertisement more aware of what is happening, most people don't understand

pieces made from the ivory tusks.1 These pieces symbolizes past forefathers. 1 The impact the United States had on the decline of the elephant population was mainly back in the early 1900’s when ivory was used in the production of many everyday goods, however in present day and over the last few decades the ivory is no longer sold on the primary market in the United States due to the ban of ivory in most countries around the globe.1 In present day, China is the leader in the ivory industry where the

article I chose to read talked about a new strategy to track elephant poaching in Africa. The mass killings have become so frequent in the past years that only 40,000 of the African elephant population is left. Furthermore, the high demands for elephant ivory are doing little to help. Researchers believe that by using DNA from the tusks of previously poached elephants, they can pin point exactly where the illicit acts are happening. According to the new study, most of the killing sprees occurred around

he elephants who can distinguish threats from humans and bees There are many intelligent animals in the world, but an African elephant in North Kenya is probably way smarter than you can probably imagine. A recent study aimed at finding out whether the alarm calls by the African elephants, co-existing with the local Samburu people, can distinguish between threats from humans and bees. Mammalian vocal calls refer to external objects present in the environment and indicate a potential threat through

Poaching in Africa has become a major issue for the world. Poachers kill innocent animals for certain items to sell for a high price on the black market. Poachers are people who kill animals out of season or any other illegal way. If poachers are not stopped soon, there will not be any more rhinoceroses, lions, or elephants. People need to find ways to stop this crisis. Better education in schools, better poaching laws, and better security to patrol the wild can help against animal poaching in Africa

A105 ASSIGNMENT 1 PART 1 Using no more than 250 words, write a description of the object depicted in the two photographs. This object is small at just 3.7 cm in length. There seems to be no information on circumference or height measurements. The shape takes that of a hare, with what appears to be a somewhat oval base. Three of the paws also take shape at the base of the object, with the forth paw raise in the front. The head is of circular shape with a prominent nose and mouth cleverly carved out