Elephants May Be Extinct Within Fifteen Years

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The IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) has release a startling report. They claim the elephants are being slaughtered at the rate of a hundred a day to support the ivory trade in China.

If things continue in this vein, the elephant will be extinct within fifteen years.

Banning the ivory trade does not see to have solved the problem and ivory hunters still take enormous risks for the high prices it brings. Education has not worked, so may it’s time to do something about the underlying causal factor and tackle poverty on a larger scale. Let’s face it; very few men would go out there killing elephants if they could earn a living in another way.

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