This all creatures animal exploitation photo gallery about elephants is being presented to show the public the difference between the cute animals we see in advertising and picture in our minds and the reality that exists in the world.
(Elephant Exploitation - Ivory - 02) These tusks are being burned in an
attempt to stop the poaching of elephants for their ivory. The process involved
in procuring ivory is indeed horrific. The elephant must be killed before the
ivory can be procured - stoning, poison dart resulting in slow painful death or
machine gun slaughter of entire herds at waterholes. Regardless of the mode in
which the elephants are killed, the process of extracting the ivory is all the
same. In order to obtain all the ivory from the elephant, the hunter and poacher
must cut into the head because approximately 25% of the ivory is contained in
the head. What is then left on the fields of the African or Asian plains is the
corpse of a tusk less elephant with a mutilated face and head. ~ Volunteer
Journalist: Maureen Adams
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