Slaughter of the African Elephants

   In the article "Slaughter of the African Elephants" by Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels they talk about elephants and how most of then are being slaughtered for their ivory tusk. In the article they state a staggering 62 percent vanished from central Africa between 2002 and 2011. Also in the article they say in China and other countries in the Far East, there has been an astronomical rise in the demand fir ivory trinkets that no matter how exquisitely made have no essential utility whatsoever. Many people in other places around the world find ivory tusk really popular and once people want to buy more and more then hunters will continue to go after the elephants and kill then for their tusk. Also you still have to deal with the young elephants when their mom dies because the people killed them. They starve, scared not able to find their food anything. Samantha and Fiona said that they increasingly see groups of young elephants without knowledgeable females accompanying them. 

   I think that people should stop killing elephants for their tusk. There are plenty of other things in the world to use to carve things . Wood for an example. But it's hard to get people who really want something to stop. If tusk is really popular in the far East then you have to have a good enough plan to stop the people from buying it. Then you need to see what other products people can use if people are going to want to replace ivory tusk with something else popular.  If it isn't nothing in the world that could replace tusk then people will continue to go on with killing them. So people should really act out what they want to happen between elephants and the killing.