(WWF) We run the risk of losing them forever. And yet, although they are a universal symbol of wildlife diversity, they continue to be hunted for their flesh, hide, tusks and ears. Between 1979 and 1989, worldwide demand for ivory caused elephant populations to decline to dangerously low levels. During this time period, poaching fueled by ivory sales cut Africa's elephant population in half. Since they were big targets and sported the largest tusks, Savannah elephants took the worst hit.
Dian became very attached to a certain gorilla she named Digit. She was able to watch him grow and he was just as fond of her as she was of him. After a few years into their relationship, Dian found Digit killed by poachers. Poachers would use the heads, hand, and feet of the gorillas to make money. In response to the killing of Digit, Dian started a campaign against gorilla poaching.
Over the last hundred years, hunting and forest destruction have reduced overall tiger populations from hundreds of thousands to perhaps 3,000 to 5,000. Tigers are hunted as trophies and also for body parts that are used in traditional Chinese medicine. All five remaining tiger subspecies are endangered, and many protection programs are in place. Poaching is a reduced—but still very significant—threat to Siberian tigers. Tigers live alone and aggressively scent-mark large territories to keep their rivals away.
Therefore, deforestation sabotages habitat loss, insufficient food for the jaguars and other carnivores. These are the causes of which poachers try to “control” jaguar population by killing them. But they do not only kill them but find great business in selling their skin and tooth which caused the illegal trade as a habit. For this reason, the jaguars have been of great importance to the environment lovers
In the last decade, there have been numerous cases of stampeding elephants in Africa that are destroying villages. In some cases these elephants are engaging in intercourse with rhinos. This postulate derives from the slaughter of the elder male elephants being continuously hunted. As a result, male calves are acting out of their innate instinct because the elders have been massacred. If the natural order of nature is forsaken, the next generation of people will study the bones of the extinct elephant.
According to Mayra Calvani in her journal in World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) mentioned that in Latin America and Europe, around 250,000 bulls die per year due to tortured and killed for entertainment purpose especially in bullfighting. (M.Calvani, 2008)². This shows that, keeping animals for entertainment purposes promotes animal abuse. Secondly, captivity also takes away animals’ freedom. Many of wild animals cannot cope with situation that they are taken from their natural habitats and placed in captivity.
The orang-utan (Pongo Pygmaeus) is the world’s largest tree-climbing mammal and the smartest creature on Earth besides the human being. The word orang-utan literally means ‘person of the forest’ and is man’s closest and enigmatic cousins in the animal kingdom sharing 96.4% of our DNA. Female orang-utans produce an offspring only once every 8 or 9 years which makes them the slowest reproducing animal in the world, this makes them prone to extinction. To make matters worse they are dying in greater numbers than they are babies born. The main factor behind this tragedy is that they are native only to the tropical rainforests in the islands of Borneo (shared between the countries of Indonesia and Malaysia) and Sumatra (in Indonesia), these rainforests are rapidly disappearing due to logging and the expansion of huge palm-oil plantations that are replacing the rainforests at a very fast pace.
Why is the animal endangered? What are humans doing to affect the sustainability of this species? The Moon Bear is endangered from illegal hunting of the Moon Bear’s body parts, habitat loss from logging & athe main reason being because over Asia thousands & thousands of bears are on bear farms, kept in tiny cages, in order to get bile (a liquid in bears produced by the liver, that helps to digest the bears fat) from the gall bladders. Catheters (a metal tube) are implanted into the bears gall bladder (next to the liver in the abdomen), where the bile is drained up to twice a day. The procedure is very unhygienic & causes many infections where some bears die as a result.
This has a strong impact on Orwell when a working elephant escapes from its owners’ home and begins to terrorize a local village, killing a man. The owner of the elephant, and the only one who can control it, is looking for the elephant but in the wrong direction, and is about twelve hours away. When the elephant is located grazing in a nearby field, Orwell has to decide whether or not to shoot the elephant or wait for the owner’s return. The added pressure of the locals behind Orwell, some of whom want the meat from the elephant and others just hopeful to see a European being crushed to death by the elephant, make it much more difficult for him to reach a decision. In the end Orwell reluctantly decides to shoot the elephant “solely to avoid looking a fool” (479) in front of the Burmese people.
He lived in the Currumpaw valley in New Mexico. Many call him the king of it. During the 1890's, Lobo and his pack, were killing the settlers’ livestock. The ranchers tried to kill Lobo and his pack by trying to poison them. They also tried to kill them by using traps and by hunting parties, but these attempts failed.