{"id":28526,"date":"2015-07-11T14:05:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T12:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=28526"},"modified":"2015-07-11T14:05:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T12:05:16","slug":"efforts-to-end-elephant-poaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/efforts-to-end-elephant-poaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Efforts to End Elephant Poaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proceeds from poaching have become a fcator in financing terrorism.\u00a0 Defense departments,anti-terrorism departments and enforcement institutions are now working to prosecute poachers and end this trade.<\/p>\n

1. Big Business<\/strong>
\nWildlife hunting is big business \u2013 a recent 2013 estimate valued the illegal poaching trade in Africa as being worth $17 billion dollars a year and growing.<\/p>\n

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2. Big Weapons<\/strong>The most common poaching gun in east Africa is the AK47. Increasingly poachers spot elephant herds from helicopter and target their prey from above. On-the-ground poachers have been known to use machetes, spears and watermelons spiked with cyanide.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

3. Big Profits
\n<\/strong>According to gun policy officials the going rate for a rifle in Kenya is around $100-120 \u2013 a fortune by local economic standards but a mere fraction of the money that can be made from just one elephant (a single tusk can be worth up to $240).<\/p>\n

4. Chinese Prices
\n<\/strong>In China such a tusk would sell for more than $2000 \u2013 its value therefore increasing tenfold by the time it is shipped out of Africa and arrives in Asia.<\/p>\n

5. Local Misunderstanding<\/strong>
\nA recent study found that less than a third of Chinese people surveyed knew that elephants are killed for their tusks.<\/p>\n

6. Common mythology
\n<\/strong>A separate study showed 70 per cent think they grow back like fingernails. Another myth propagated is that elephants\u2019 tusks fall out naturally.<\/p>\n

7. 104 Deaths a Day<\/strong>
\nAnimal rights groups estimate that poachers in Africa kill between 25,000 and 35,000 elephants annually \u2013 meaning about 104 die a day.<\/p>\n

8. An Offence Without Prosecution <\/strong>
\nOf the 157 poaching-related cases detected in Kenya in the past three years, less than five per cent have been prosecuted and only three of those convicted were sentenced to jail.<\/p>\n

9. Pulverizing the Trade <\/strong>
\nThe Obama administration destroyed the US reserve of elephant tusks on November 5, 2013 \u2013 announcing that the pulverizing of 6 tons (5.4 tonnes) of \u2018blood ivory\u2019 would send out the right message to the world.<\/p>\n

10. Not Far from Human<\/strong>
\nElephants are more like us than you may know. They can be gay, left-handed, have the ability to grieve and \u2013 true to reputation \u2013 have amazing memories.<\/p>\n

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