Why is the African elephant a endangered species?

Answer 1

The African elephant, remarkably, is not considered endangered, rather, the species is listed as "vulnerable" by the IUCN. The Asian elephant is endangered.

African Elephants are vulnerable because of various reasons:

1. Hunting & Poaching - Trophy Hunting and Ivory Poaching is the main reason for the decline in numbers of African elephants. There were once millions of these animals and now only a few thousand survive
2. Habitat Loss - As human numbers grew, people started settling into forests and that has also affected elephant populations.
3. Predators: the lion, that eats them, only when completely help less and alone; and humans, because humans use their tusks for ivory such as piano keys.

Answer 2

African elephants are endangered due to poaching for their ivory tusks, habitat loss as a result of human encroachment and development, and human-wildlife conflict. These factors have significantly reduced their population numbers, making them vulnerable to extinction.

Answer 3

African elephants could become extinct if laws in foreign countries, particularly China, are not passed to outlaw the trade of ivory.

More elephants are killed by poachers every day than are born. Soon, there will be no more elephants. Ivory is used for good luck charms, carvings, and a host of other things--none of which are beneficial to mankind in any way. There is a lot of money in the ivory trade; and elephant tusks are the only source of ivory.

China freely trades in ivory and will not allow the use or sale of ivory. There are other Asian countries who do the same. Consquently, elephant populations are dwindling and will soon be non-existent.

Answer 4

Two reasons primarily (both related to humans):

• loss of habitat (the place where elephants usually lives gets smaller and smaller because of humans claiming more and more land for agricutural use). This means there is less food available while accidental encounters with humans are much more likely and which usually result in the elephant being shot;
• legal and illegal hunting of elephants, either 'just for fun' or to obtain the tusks of the elephant which are highly sought after.

Answer 5

People killed them for sport, for meat, for their tusks and because the elephants lost their land to people who took over the lands that the elephants used to live on. Also due to pollution and dirty surroundings. Keep in mind that the African Elephants aren't the only animals endangered, millions of wild and wonderful beasts disappear every day.

Answer 6

The African elephant is considered vulnerable, not endangered as of today. Occuring in two subspecies, the bush elephant, the larger of the two, and the forest elephant of the Congo region. The two split into separate populations around two million years ago. The main reason for the decline of the species was hunting for the ivory trade.

Answer 7

The African bush elephant is not endangered, rather listed as"vulnerable". The smaller African forest elephant is considered endangered however.

The forest elephant has seen a decline in its numbers due to deforestation and native hunting, but has seen a recent increase in numbers, and banning of the ivory trade.

Answer 8

Because of two main reasons:

1. Hunting & Poaching - Trophy Hunting and Ivory Poaching is the main reason for the decline in numbers of African elephants. There were once millions of these animals and now only a few thousand survive
2. Habitat Loss - As human numbers grew, people started settling into forests and that has also affected elephant populations.
3. This species is currently considered "Vulnerable", not endangered.

Over all the species is classified as vulnerable, in some places, such as southern Africa, the elephant populatino has recovered. However, the forest elephant is disappearing rapidly, and there are countries where the elephant is severely endangered, as well as some countries which no longer have elephants (i.e. they are locally extinct).

Answer 9

Poaching and destruction of natural habitat.
The African Elephant is endangered because humans are hunting them for their ivory tusks.

Answer 10

Elephants have become endangered because they are being killed by terrible poachers for they're beautiful ivory tusks.