Dear MEL
Topic Readers,
'We are
failing the elephants'
There
used to be as many as 20 million elephants in Africa. But the population is
estimated to have shrunk to only half a million at most in the continent.
Global warming to blame?
In fact,
they have been killed by bullets of poachers for their ivory. It is popular especially
among Chinese as a luxury gift, a purported medicine and also as a valuable investment.
As the economy grew rapidly, demand for such highly-valued body part has
increased, thus stimulated poaching and trafficking. Despite the governments’
and non-government institutions’ initiatives to catch those illegal poachers
and traders, there still are intolerable number of killings of elephants. The
savanna is just too huge to keep an eye on all the time.
Enjoy
reading the article and watching the video, and think what else could be done
to save the largest animal on the land.
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