Mankind has hunted elephants for a very long time. In prehistoric times, men went on hunting trips to hunt mammoths, which were cousins to elephants.
There are three known species of elephants around today. They are: the African elephant, which has very large ears; the Indian elephant, which has much smaller ears and lives in India; and the recently classified Forest elephant.
Over the years, elephants have been hunted for two main reasons: the meat could feed a whole village; and most importantly the two long tusks can be sold for a lot of money. Some other elephant products are leather made of its skin, and there was a time when the feet were used to make umbrella stands.
Tusks, which are made of ivory, became so valuable that poachers would hunt and kill dozens of elephants in one night, just to butcher them for the tusks. The rest of the animal would be left behind. This awful practice is so bad that there are very few elephants left in the wild. The sale and trade of ivory has been severely restricted in recent years, but sadly, that has not stopped the illegal killing of elephants. The situation is so bad in Africa, that men who are assigned to protect the elephant herds are allowed to kill poachers when necessary.
Poachers hunt elephants for three reasons. Their tusks, skin, and meat.
Elephants are poached for the value of their Ivory. Poachers in Africa kill the elephants, who then sell them to the smugglers, and they sell them
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Some reasons are for their meat, others are for poaching. Elephant skin and the ivory in their tusks is worth a lot of money.
Poachers kill lions because they want their paws. Some Asians believe that lion bones can make you strong if you grind them up into soup and drink it.
They kill elephants because sometimes people need skin
To use their tusks for medicine and that's about it really. There isn't much use to elephants apart from their tusks.
Erm... hunters?
for money.
The facts I have seen documented is that elephants have no other predator than man. Poachers do sell elephant meat.
Poachers have decimated the elephant populations where elephants have large tusks. They kills elephants for their tusks, which is known as ivory. The ivory trade is illegal except in countries like China. As elephants with big tusks are killed off by poachers, only elephants with small tusks or no tusks at all at left to mate and have offspring.
Elephant poachers are people who kill elephants illegally for their tusks. The ivory in the elephants tusk has a great demand in the illegal black market and hence these people kill elephants against the law and smuggle their tusks.
Erm... hunters?
Yes. Some tribes that live in the African Forests hunt various animals for food. This includes the Elephants also. But, this is not the biggest threat to African Elephants. Poachers who kill them for their Tusks have killed thousands of Elephants.
Pretty much only humans who hunt them illegally (poachers). elephants also are know to kill a % of tigers
It has put strict anti poaching laws. They have rangers who roam around the national parks to ensure that poachers dont hunt elephants.
poachers like elephants because of their tusks.
Virtually anywhere they live, elephants are hunted by poachers for their ivory. The range of wild elephants includes nearly all of Africa south of the Sahara, as well as southern Asia from India to Malaysia and Borneo.
Most poachers are in africa and india. Africa: Elephants for tusks and rhinos for horns. India: Elephants. Happens most in asian countries
Ivory poachers; and when the elephants get lost from their herds
smugglers and poachers who want the money they can get from dead elephants.
Elephant poachers look for tusks and usually leave the rest.
elephants and poachers
Ivory wood smugglers or Poachers.