Elephant Conservation
The world needs creatures that inspire wonder.
There is important work to be done to ensure that elephants, like their Ice Age cousins, don't disappear from the earth. At current rates, elephants could become extinct within 20 years.
Consider that the elephant population in East Africa has dropped more than 90% in the last 30 years (from 3 million down to 250,000)!
Consider that poaching is currently reducing the elephant population in Africa by 10% per year.
Preservation of habitat, political stability, sustainable economic development, anti-poaching efforts (and especially, reducing demand for ivory) will all play a role in the long term survival of elephants.
Consider these sobering statistics from the World Wildlife Fund
" In 1930, as many as 10 million wild elephants roamed huge swaths of the African continent.
But decades of poaching and conflict have since decimated African elephant populations.
Today, there are just 415,000 elephants across Africa."
https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/winter-2018/articles/the-status-of-african-elephants
Conservation information is available at:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/elephant/sections/conservation/conservation.html
http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/
This link describes the probable role of mastodons in their ecosystem and warns of impending danger regarding today's forest elephant population.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2013/03/01/forest-elephants-wiped-out-ecosystem/
There is important work to be done to ensure that elephants, like their Ice Age cousins, don't disappear from the earth. At current rates, elephants could become extinct within 20 years.
Consider that the elephant population in East Africa has dropped more than 90% in the last 30 years (from 3 million down to 250,000)!
Consider that poaching is currently reducing the elephant population in Africa by 10% per year.
Preservation of habitat, political stability, sustainable economic development, anti-poaching efforts (and especially, reducing demand for ivory) will all play a role in the long term survival of elephants.
Consider these sobering statistics from the World Wildlife Fund
" In 1930, as many as 10 million wild elephants roamed huge swaths of the African continent.
But decades of poaching and conflict have since decimated African elephant populations.
Today, there are just 415,000 elephants across Africa."
https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/winter-2018/articles/the-status-of-african-elephants
Conservation information is available at:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/elephant/sections/conservation/conservation.html
http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/
This link describes the probable role of mastodons in their ecosystem and warns of impending danger regarding today's forest elephant population.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2013/03/01/forest-elephants-wiped-out-ecosystem/
