Elephants are hunted for their ivory (tusks) and they are also hunted for "fun"
* organisations have been made to save them. * there are rescue misstions that have taken place and the elephants resued have been put in elephant sanctuarys! * elephants have also become a protected species
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it has been made illegal to kill the elephants but some people still do it any way.
If I were giving a speech on animal cruelty then I would discuss how the animals are treated, what is really done to them, and end with saying . . . "if this isn't cruelty then what is?"
White elephants have been alive as long as elephants have been around. White elephants are not a species of elephant, but a regular elephant that has albinism.
We have to more take care of elephants and we have to do not kill elephants.
it is animal cruelty, just people have done it for so long and many believe that by doing so is not too bad, such as killing a spider, or a bird for hunting.. but i personally think it is animal cruelty and should not be done.
cruelty has been going on for ages. no one can stop it but we can try to stop it.
If it's not done by a vet.
There are a great number of different kinds of animal cruelty statistics that are available such as how many animals have been killed. There have been over 30,000 domestic animals killed by cruelty in the last decade in the United States alone.
In Africa, many people are working to help their local populations of elephants, doing things such as tracking by the use of radio collars, and employing trackers to keep an eye on what the elephants are doing, and where they are moving from and to. Around the world, many animal rights groups are working towards freeing elephants from captivity or from performing in circuses. The web links give you an idea of the kinds of organisations that are helping the elephants in Africa and Asia.
Elephants are only native to two continents - Africa and Asia. There have never been elephants in Japan, other than those in captivity. Fossil mammoths have been found in Japan however.