Elephants are in danger There are many

Elephants are in danger

There are many environmental problems

POLLUTION

Energy consumption

MASSIVE DEFORESTATION

OZONE DEPLETION

GLOBAL WARMING

Wildlife problem

Elephant is the largest terrestrial animal. Traditionally, two species are recognized, the African elephant and the Asian elephant.

They are identified by their massive bodies and their trunk, which is used to pick a variety of objects, including food. Living members of the order Proboscides have a maximum height of nearly 4 m and a weight of up to 7, 500 kg. The head is large in relation to the rest of the body, and African elephants are noted for their very large ears.

Both African elephants and Asian elephants need a lot of food and freedom to survive. They wander in small to large herds over sometimes incredibly large areas, while consuming up to several hundred kilograms of plant matter in a single day.

The two main historical factors behind the decline of African elephants:

In the early 1970 s, most of the ivory leaving Africa was taken illegally and over 80% of all the raw ivory traded came from poached elephants

In the first decade of this century, there was killed each year to 100 thousand elephants, and in 1980 s years in Kenya alone, poachers have destroyed about 20, 000 of these animals every year.