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Madison JonesENG 102-BC07Ms. Keltz2/13/14 The elephant universe is struggling to time lag its species alive. Poaching is causing more deaths and causing the decrease in universe than natural deaths would be. Because of this, there are less than 500,000 left in the orb and they could potenti completelyy go extinct within 15 years if nought is done to save and protect them(Herrington 5). Before, there were millions of elephants around the world except there has been a drastic decline worldwide. In 1980 there were over one million elephants, by 1989 more than 600,000 elephants were killed(Christ 32). Those 600,000 killed elephants were over half of the elephant population. If this keeps declining at this rate, the whole elephant population go away be extinct. This proves that the hunt is becoming so unmanageable. Therefore, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of loose Fauna and Flora (CITES) is trying to do something to manage and prevent poaching and the decline of the population. Hunting is considered poaching and illegal when it is not the right time, location, itemise killed, method or the species being hunted(Farmer). Elephants would not be hunted if they did not cause ivory that is so valuable. If there was no demand for ivory or an ivory trade, there would not be any poaching. The commercialized poachers hunt for a profit, and the subsistence poachers hunt for survival, both are harming the population(Farmer). If the government does not enforce this, then they poaching will not stop and it will get as bad as it was in the 1980s when the population was decreasing much more rapidly than it is now. Ivory is used and prized for umteen things. It is used in carvings or may be painted. It is prized and very valuabl... ...(Steinmetz). This very helped the tigers that were almost extinct. Since this resulted in positive outcomes, the WWF decided to spread the knowledge and ideas to communities and schools all around. Meetings were scheduled and the information was spread quickly. All signs of poaching started being monitored and since 2008, the WWF notice a decrease in evidence of weaponry(Steinmetz). In 2011, the park rangers shew less shotgun shells and camps were they would hideout(Steinmetz). This experience obviously shows the power a friendship can have when they work together to reach a mutual goal. If the WWF didnt try, who knows what would have happened to all the species at risk in Thailand. The WWF clean needs to expand and present this information to all the other countries and communities who have animals at risk and the poaching could potentially end completely.