2. Elephant Tusks
• These are elephant
tusks. There are
African gangs poaching
elephants for money!
• African gangs are
wiping out tens of
thousands of elephants
a year, more than at
anytime in the 2
previous decades!
3. • An estimated 25,000
elephants are being
killed every year by
well-armed African
gangs.
• A gunman who kills an
elephant with tusk
weighing 10 kilograms
would each receive
about $2,500, or more.
• Well-armed poachers
are even killing the park
rangers.
5. Ivory Tusks
• Elephants are being
poached for tusks made
ivory.
• Before, these were a
elephants tusks, but now
they were decorated
and being auctioned
• This is an elephant tusk
made into an ivory
bracelet.
6. History
• In the 1930s and 40s, there were as many as
5 million African elephant on Earth. Now
population have dwindled to between 472,000
to 690,000.
7. HELP!!!!
• Kenya is at a state that they want
government HELP, to arrest the African
gangs, and STOP illegal poaching!!
8.
9. THE END!
By
Erin Wittlieff & Anna Wagner
Save the Elephants!!
7th grade Social Studies
