I know i'm doing this way out of chronological order, but I want to get caught up since I started the class a week and a half after the school year had already started.
Today I was reading about elephants being poisoned in Zimbabwe. Poachers are contaminating watering holes and ground surfaces with industrial cyanide. Once the elephant has consumed the poison, it will collapse shortly after and that is when the poachers come in and remove the tusks from the elephants. This isn't only putting elephants at danger, all other species are now at risk. Even humans are at risk! Any living being that comes in contact with a contaminated area is immediately at risk for death.
This is horrifying, especially for me because I visited a country in Africa this summer and while we were on our safari, our tour guide really emphasized the fact that rangers in parks are on the look out for poachers because more and more elephants are being found dead. There were a group of men that were found with 17 elephant tusks in their possession. Each of them are being faced with fines and have been sentenced to 16 years in jail.
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