The ivory trade harms elephants, people do things to try to protect them. As you may know elephants have ivory tusks. The ivory is very valuable and people kill the elephants to get their tusks and sell them for very high prices. The ivory trade is people that kill elephants for their ivory tusks and import them to different countries illegally. The people that bought the ivory may carve it into something or make it into jewelry sometimes they sell the jewelry for such a little amount.
The ivory trade harms elephants. It harms elephants because poachers kill elephants for their ivory tusks. Poachers slaughter about 6,000 to 12,000 elephants every year. Officials guess that there is somewhere around 400,000 to 500,000 elephants left in Africa. A man named Desire Dontego was a poacher and would go out with a group of people and kills the elephants and take the meat and ivory tusks, he would just leave the skin there. Dontego was known as “the killing machine” because he killed so many elephants.…show more content… The African government made a law that it is illegal to hunt elephants. According to the text “Killing Fields”, Dontego heard an American conservationist speak about how killing elephants is illegal and wrong. Dontego felt guilty about killing elephants and being a poacher so he joined an environmental group that helps protect elephants and tries stop the ivory trade.
In conclusion, we learned about what the ivory trade is, how it harms elephants and how people are trying to stop the ivory trade and save elephants from extinction. To save elephants and attempt to stop the ivory trade people established an environmental group. People hunt elephants for meat and their ivory
