HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW

TUSKING AWAY

• Elephants are threatened, because of there ivory tusks, meat and hides.
• The average price for an elephants tusk is 23,00o$
• In the years of 1979-1987 elephants were decimated from 1.3 million to 600,000
• Earlier this year 450 elephants were killed in Cameroon, leaving 10% of that countries elephants
• Belgium lost 15,000 of its 22,000 were killed from poachers

FURRROCIOUS

• Leopards are poached for there beautiful spotted fur, which are very expensive (290$ per coat)
• Researchers believe that leopards have been hunted down too about 75%.
• Just over the past decade we have lost 2,000 leopards and if you were a math geek that means we lose 4 per week.
• For trophies to post in there hunting rom, to also boast of all the animals they have killed.
• The world now only has 1,200 leopards that roam the wild.

RHINO PRIDE

• Rhinos horns have a value of 65,000$ and are worth more than some gold or cocaine.
• There are about 29,000 rhinos left today.
• Rhinos also are being poached for traditional Chinese medicines. (Cures almost everything)
• Poachers also kill de-horned rhinos for vengeance, to avoid tracking them again.
• 2008 (83 deaths), 2009 (122 deaths) 2010 (333 deaths) 2011 (448 deaths) 2012 (668 deaths) 2013 (1004 deaths)

KING OF THE JUNGLE?

• Lions are also used for medicinal reasons for curing erectile dysfunction.
• Since the numbers of tigers are being decimated people are one hunting leopards and lions.
• The world today only has 200,000 lions remaining in our wildlife which is not a big number.
• Lions bones are being used to make soups .
• Lions are being killed every year at the rate of 730 per year.

SHERE KHANS STRIPES

• In 1993-94 36 tiger skins and 667 kilos (1470 lbs) were found in Northern India causing the notice of tigers also being poached.
• Tiger fur is being sold for 5,000$ per coat, and the bones are used for Eastern medicine.
• The penis of the tiger is used to put in soup to cure men's erectile dysfunction, which is also used for an aphrodisiac.
• Tigers are poached by steel traps and poisons to easily put the tiger down.
• We have lost 3 subs pieces of tigers and now only have 6 with only 3,200 remaining.

ANIMALS DYING FROM POACHING A DAY!!

TOM HARDYS POACHING

• http://youtu.be/BZ-vjeT9OUc

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WORK CITED

• https://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-poaching-animals http://worldelephantday.org/about/elephants
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/13-animals-hunted-to-extinc...
• http://iccfoundation.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=445&It... http://conservationbiology.uw.edu/research-programs/effects-of-poaching-on-...
• http://www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/issues_for_debate/de-horning http://news.sky.com/story/1210157/gabon-elephant-poaching-hits-crisis-point
• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/leopards-of-yala/leopard-poaching/2... http://www.stoprhinopoaching.com/