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By: Liam Issar, Gold B1
-In 1979, the African elephant population was estimated to be around 1.3 million, but by 1989 only 600,000 African elephants remained.
-Elephant poaching in Africa is significant in regards to current world affairs because it can disrupt the ecosystem not only in Africa, but the ecosystem throughout the entire world.
-As a result of this, the African elephant was listed as threatened under the U.S.’s Endangered Species Act
-If the ecosystem was disrupted throughout the entire world, this would have disastrous effects on humans, plants, and animals.
-In 1989, the organization Born Free and its supporters convinced the organization CITES (the Convention on International trade in Endangered Species) to ban the the international commercial ivory trade.
-In 2008, CITES allowed four African countries, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, to sell around 120 tons of ivory to China and Japan.
-As a result of this, the price of ivory crashed and ivory markets in the U.S. and Europe crashed.
-During the 17th and 19th century, the demand for ivory 1st occurred.
-As a result of this, the elephant populations in Africa plummeted.
-This picture represents the tons of elephant tusks that poachers killed elephants for, but after the ban was passed, ivory became hard to access in the U.S. and Europe.
-This allowed illegal ivory to be sold once again.
-This graph represents the decline in the African Elephant populations during the 17th and 19th century.
-This picture represents how the elphants were on the verge of extinction in the late 20th century and required our help to survive.
-Elephants are an important species that doesn't deserve to be hunted just so humans can obtain the ivory from their tusks.
-In 2011, more than 26 tons of illegal ivory was seized by the Lusaka Agreement Task Force and burned.
-If we can wait for Elephants to die and then remove their tusks to get the ivory insted of hunting them, we can help the elephant population to recover and better support our ecosystem.
-This made 2011 the worst year for elephant poaching since the 1989 ban took place.
-So, if hunters continue to poach elephants just for the ivory in their tusks, elephants could become the next species to disappear off the face of the earth and never return. If this happens, the only elephants you might even be able to see are in the museums as artifacts and relics on display as an exhibit.
-This event also kept ivory out of the illegal market and it also ensured that this ivory could never be made available for any potential future trades.
-This picture represents how illegal ivory could once again be traded and the killing of African elephants could resume.