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Elephant Poaching. Hunter Blommer. Elephant Poaching. Elephants are very often poached for their tusks. Elephant tusks are made out of ivory Poachers sell ivory on the black market Most of the ivory goes to China and Japan, but there is a growing demand for it in the United States.
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Elephant Poaching Hunter Blommer
Elephant Poaching • Elephants are very often poached for their tusks. • Elephant tusks are made out of ivory • Poachers sell ivory on the black market • Most of the ivory goes to China and Japan, but there is a growing demand for it in the United States
Elephant Death Rate In 1930 five to ten million African elephants existed. Now less than 1% of that number live and that number is decreasing every single day. For every one live elephant, there are two carcasses.
Extinction Rate Elephants are sometimes killed by the thousands. 8% of elephants are poached every year and that is a growing statistic. Elephants will most likely be extinct by 2020.
Ivory (Elephant Tusks) Demand for Ivory in dollars per kilo The demand for ivory is increasing at a rapid rate. As the population of elephants decreases the higher the demand gets. As the demand gets higher more people poach elephants and more are killed.
Mass Ivory Seizures These are elephant tusks seized from Singapore in 2002
Surprising Fact China gets most of the poached ivory but the United States is a close second. Almost 24,000 ivory items have been seized from U.S stores. http://www.bloodyivory.org/ This is a link that provides live updates on elephant poaching and ivory seizures.