13 сент. 2024 г. · Increased industrial activity, such as mining, close to African elephants has been shown to lead to an increase in elephant poaching.

Because of the high price of ivory, poachers illegally kill elephants so that they can take their tusks and sell them. Tens of thousands of elephants are killed ...

Elephants use these extended teeth for a number of purposes, including stripping bark from trees for food, moving objects and for defense against predators.

19 нояб. 2016 г. · No elephant need be killed for its tusks, but because of our greed and lack of patience to allow the animals to live out their lives in peace, ...

Illegal ivory traders get more for larger tusks and, as a result, the largest, best-endowed elephant are at the greatest risk of poaching. Though elephant do ...

Less than a third of those surveyed in China knew that elephants were slaughtered for their tusks and 70% believed that an elephant's tusks would grow back ...

Elephants use their tusks to pry bark off trees, dig for roots and minerals, and for defense and sexual display. Though we call it ivory a tusk is actually made ...

9 нояб. 2018 г. · Elephants with a rare “tuskless” genetic trait had a better chance of surviving Mozambique's long civil war, financed in part by poached ivory.

The illegal elephant ivory trade is driven by transnational organized crime syndicates. They devastate elephant populations and undermine the rule of law, ...