The article "Slaughter of the Elephants" by Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels is about poachers attacking elephants and killing them. In the article it says, "An elephant's tusk have become bling for consumers who have no idea or simply don't care that it was obtained by inflicting terror,horrendous pain and death on thinking, feeling, self-aware beings."
Poachers are killing adult elephants and their babies and cutting their tusk off and creating them into jewlery. Poachers have killed adult and babies elephants before. In the article it says, " About a year ago, poachers attacked a family of forest elephants in central Africa."
If poahers keep killing these animals there will be loss of an iconic species. In the article it states, " The continuing slaughter of these animals means more than the loss on an iconic species. Forest elephants play a crucial ecological role in the life of the forests they inhabit, places of incredicle biodiversity and one of the earth's most important carbon sequestering regions."
I think the killings of these animals are destroying out eco-system. Just because they are animals doesn't mean that they are not apart of life. Animals are dying and they more they die the less they mate, and the less they mate leads to exstinction on the animal. They should not be killing elephants to then make them into jewlery.
Are there other reasons that they are killing them? Is there any reason why these people have no remorse of pulling a triigger on a gun and killing a innocent animal? People are so cruel and don't understand life. People and things that live on this earth all connect and need each other some-way and some-how.
I think the thing you need to remember is that opportunities are very limited in central Africa and that the poachers are probably doing this because it is simply a way to make money and survive. Perhaps we should direct more of criticism toward the people who purchase the ivory carvings. 95
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