Elephant

Why do you think **elephants** are regarded as endangered?

Which elephant's chances for survival are better, the African or the Asian? What factors lead you to this conclusion?

Do you think banning trade in ivory affects other species?

If the ban on trade in ivory is successful in stopping poaching, do you think the elephant's survival is assured? Is your answer the same for African and **Asian elephants**?

Are reserves the solution to the problem of habitat loss? What else could or should be done?

Elephants have entertained us in circuses and festivals around the world. For centuries, the elephant's massive tusks have been prized for their ivory. People take advantage of elephants for there tusks. People kill elephants to get there meat, also when the natives didn't had any food to eat they would go hunting and kill elephants for there meat.
 * 1.**I think elephants are regarded as endangered because, people kill the elephant to get its tusks.

Demand for ivory, combined with habitat loss from human settlement, has led to a dramatic decline in elephant populations in the last few decades. In 1930, there were between 5 and 10 million African elephants. By 1979, there were 1.3 million.
 * 2****.** African elephants has a better chance to live because African elephants don't get hunted down like asian elephants.

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