Poachers manage to evade rangers and locate elephants. Using powerful guns, they shoot elephants multiple times until they die. Then they use chainsaws to hack off the tusks, which are the part that sells for lots of money. Then they somehow smuggle the tusks out of Africa and into other countries.
because ivory is expensive, if you try to take it's tusks while it's alive, the elephant will trample you to death. elephants are quite a bit larger than humans.
Asian elephants have been endangered since 1986. This is because they have never been properly domesticated and have been poached for their tusks.
There is a global demand for ivory.
Gorillas are poached for the same reason as almost all poaching in poor countries - Eithe the poacher need the meat to feed himself and his family, or he needs the money he can get from selling the poached animal on. Or a combination of both.
mammoth's weigh more but they are exstinked CORRECT ANSWER: Animals living today that are bigger than elephants are aquatic. They are: Blue whale Sperm whale Whale shark Right whale Finback whale Humpback whale
Elephant Tusks are not being poached. Elephants themselves are being poached for their ivory.
Yes, but these days, hunting elephants is illegal, thus it is against the law.
Elephants and Rhinos are poached for their Tusks and Horns because they contain ivory which is valuable. Tigers, Leopards and other Big Cats are poached for their Skin which is also valuable.
Because they are being poached/hunted for their Ivory.
elephants are poached by poachers in the African Savannah. Poachers use nets, guns, and trucks, to capture them.
If a tiger is being poached, the tiger is being illegally being hunted. Poachers also tend to go for other "big game" such as elephants for their tusks.
Elephants, Rhinos, and Leopards. And small plains game, the locals use it for food.
African Elephants are the largest land animals known to man. They are often hunted and poached for their tusks. These elephants are also considered highly intelligent as they share many evolutionary traits with humans.
As the only source of ivory is from the tusks of elephants, the trade in ivory has been a big contributor to why elephants have been heavily poached, and in some areas actually all killed off. And since it's really hard to tell if a piece of ivory is old enough to be from the time when hunting elephants was seen as OK, or if it s from an animal that has been recently poached, the simple solution to avoid dealing with parts of poached animals is not to deal in ivory at all - and that's a complete ban on (trading in) ivory.
Unfortunately many animals are poached in Tanzania. They have virtually wiped out the elephants that would roam freely there when I was a child in that area. They also poach and capture many small animals for illegal sale to collectors.
Both. Hunting can be done for beneficial purposes. Tagging for instance. Poaching is illegal hunting for profit or food.
because ivory is expensive, if you try to take it's tusks while it's alive, the elephant will trample you to death. elephants are quite a bit larger than humans.