Killing Elephants

In the article Slaughter of the African elephants by Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels it talks about how in Africa they are slaughtering the wild life animals for humans own personal use, but in the article it mainly talks about the killing of elephants for the tusk which makes ivory and it’s in very high demand so the people who are murdering them most likely aren’t doing it for nothing they’re taking the tusk and getting the money for them and these people are called poachers. Even though elephants play a role like every animal do elephants help breathing and the spreading of seeds to create trees when using the bathroom in different places all over “tens of thousands of forest elephants have been butchered over the past decade. A staggering 62 percent vanished from central Africa between 2002 and 2011.” So out of 10,000 its really only 3,800 left that is a lot of murdering of one animal for one thing that belongs to the animal anyway. These poachers have animals scared to walk down certain roads because they know if they do it is a chance of them being slaughtered. Also just like humans I am pretty sure animals have feelings and like their mothers and fathers and depend on them just like human children do and to take away a child’s mother or father is very sad. With all the killing of them there will be no elephants left and they will be talked about like dinosaurs to us because they will go extinct and the children of the next decades will never be able to see a elephant.