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Most animals are hunted for their special features (ivory tusks, fur, scales).
There used to be close to 1 million African elephants, but their population has lowered to half of that.

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Ivory trading is banned in China
People are killing elephants just for their ivory
Elephants could go extinct

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1 how many elephants were killed
2 why they were killed
3 James Desuch

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*100 elephants are killed everyday
*poachers would poison or shoot the elephants just for their tusks and to sell them for money or chopsticks

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There where 1 million elephants now there are less then 500,000

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1. 100 elephant where killed every day.
2. Chin would ban the trade.

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They are hunted for there ivory , there used to be millions of them , they weigh 11,000lb

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Ivory could be burnt, one ton of Ivory is $1 million and some elephants are being relocated 200 miles away!!!!

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I learned that from 1979 to 2012 the elephant population went down tremendously, that the US and China were the second most ivory markets and stopped selling the ivory, and that China banned selling ANY ivory.

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1.African elephants were used for ivory
2.They are endangered

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More than 100 are killed

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1. Endangered animals should be kept safe.
2. Try to help stop the population of an endangered animal go down.
3. Don’t kill animals .

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1.There are less than 500,000.  2. Also, they burned ivory to warn poachers. 3. The U.S. only allows 100 year old ivory

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They are hunted for there ivory, Marloh 

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They are hunted for there ivory, Marloh 

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I learned that they had to move homes and go somewhere safer so they sent them 200 miles away.
Next they had to save 500 elephants.
Lastly the elephant population went down in 2007.

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There used to be millions of elephants

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1. About 100 elephants are killed every day in Africa
2. China and the USA both made laws to help elephants
3. Hunters kill elephants for their ivory tusks

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Their about 21 feet long,
And they weigh about 11,000 pounds

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That they burned a lot of ivory it cost over $105 million

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Less then 50,000 elephants left