- Tactics and Weapons list
• Weapons List:
- AK47s to kill elephants
-who are these purchased from?
-what does the money from these sales fund?
-Solami group Al-Shabaab
- Nigeria's Boko Haram
- Darfur Revolution 2003
- Rock-propelled grenades
- Poisoning water sources for elephants (other wildlife is killed too)
• This tactic was created in order to have a quieter kill in Tanzania in 2012
- Iron traps/snares
• Tactics
- 25% of the tusk is under skin and within the elephants face. To remove tusk from an elephant, poachers cut off the elephant's face (using a chainsaw or axe), including trunk, tusks, mouth, and eyes.
- Cost of Ivory
• most ivory sold is sold illegally and is worth more than gold now
• 1 tusk = $6,000 on the black market (need source)
• 1 tusk = $2,100 in China
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- Where in Africa does poaching occur?
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| Source: Nat'l Geographics: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/10/ivory/elephant-ivory-poaching-graphic |
- Statistics (there are conflicting stats from different sources; trying to figure out why)
• every 15 minutes, an elephant is killed for its tusks.
• CITES
- 12,000 elephants poached per year in Central Africa
- 300 poached in Bouba Nat'l Park in Cameroon in just a few weeks of 2012
- 25,000 killed in Africa over 2011
• WWF
- 100,000 poached over 2010-2012
• Need source
- 5,000 poached in Congo outside Nouabalé N. Obki Nat'l Park
• new logging roads made poaching more accessible
• Nat'l Geographic
- Laws (link to Ivory Trade page)
- Reasons to Poach
• Poverty; Need for money
• There is a huge ivory market worldwide (When The Buying Stops, The Killing Will Stop)
- Dangers for Humans within the Ivory Trade
• 1,00 rangers have been killed by poachers in the last 10 years (these rangers were protecting more than African Elephants)
• The "war on poaching" results in deaths of poachers as well. Article here.
