Elephants are some of the most majestic animals in the animal kingdom and are mostly found in Africa and Asia. However, their most majestic feature of tusks has become the prime reason of their poaching. The money from the illegal ivory trade has been known to be used in many things including funding of terrorist organizations. However, one brave journalist decided to do something about it and came up with a brilliant idea. Read the article to know more about this illegal killing of elephants and ivory trade.
1 Elephant poaching and ivory trade
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Africa is fast losing its elephants thanks to illegal poaching by armed groups who kill these majestic beasts in order to get their tusks and sell them on international ivory trade. More than 30,000 elephants are killed every year in order to satiate the need for ivory in black market. Ivory is used in making medicines in Asian countries like China, since they are thought to have magical healing properties. A pair of ivory chopsticks can fetch a poor African poacher more than $1,000, while carved tusks go for hundreds of thousands of dollars. However, one journalist has come up with a brilliant idea to counter this illegal trade and save the hapless animals.
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