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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 Is it really worth a life of an innocent elephant? Each year, more than 30,000 elephants are vilently killed for their ivory tusks, used for carvings, jewelry, piano keys, billiard balls and hunting trophies. Richard Leakey brought worldattention by convincing the presidentof Kenya to publicly burn the countries stock pile of accumilative ivory. Richard Leakey brought worldattention by convincing the presidentof Kenya to publicly burn the countries stock pile of accumilative ivory. The ivory trade is the commercial, often illegal trade in the ivory tusks of the hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, mammoth, and most commonly, Asian and African elephants. ~In 1979, the African elephant population wasestimated to be around 1.3 million, but by 1989only 600,000 remained. ~By 1913 the United Stateswas consuming 200 tons of ivory per year. ~That made the elephant population drop to onlyan estimated 10 million. Elephant population continuedto plummet until only an estimated 1 million remained in 1979.~By 1989 as few as only 600,000 remained.~Within a year after trade of ivory was banned worldwide, and demand evaporated. citations:~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_trade~http://econowblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-killing-fields-of-ivory-infographic.html ~http://www.hsi.org/issues/wildlife_trade/wildlife_trade_infographic.html http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/media/history-ivory-trade/?ar_a=1 What is the Ivory Trade? Even with an ivory ban inplace and global public opinion strongly favoring enforcement of the ban, the demand for ivory continues, almost even stronger than everfor that matter.
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