Elephants

Elephants are one of the largest mammals on earth. They are very beautiful large animals, that live in different parts of the world. Most elephants live in Central Africa and Asia. Much of our elephants are being threatened daily by people and by there own habitat. Elephants are 4-6 tons in weight, which means hundreds of pounds of food a day that they eat in calories to survive. Much of today we industrialize a lot of places, so that means habitat loss for elephants and other animals. Since elephants eat so much food a day habitat loss is very bad. There are two types of elephants; African and Asian. African Elephants are different than the Asian elephants in several different ways. African elephants ears are fan shaped ears while the Asian ones have a pointed tip at the bottom. Another interesting thing is that the African elephants are much larger in size than the Asian ones, which are smaller. African elephants (shown above) live in grasslands and forests. African elephants help in forests and other grasslands with helping with germination and seed dispersal around. In the 1980's it was said that 100,000 elephants were killed a year. Because of human settlement and development much of the lands in southern Africa are being dwindled down,which means less food and population growth for the elephants. The elephant ranges have shrunken from three million acres of land to just one million. some of these African elephants live in forests and people are tree logging which is cutting down the trees in their habitat, and also destroys plant life that needs the trees and plants for their own survival. They aren't yet extinct, but vulnerable, because of the increase in need for ivory. Asian elephants (shown above) are mostly in southern Asia, and the Himalayas. The Asian elephants are an endangered species. These elephants live in forests, and feed on grasses, tree bark, roots, and need to be near a source of water, because they need to at least drink once a day. Ivory trade was banned, but there are still many secret trade groups and illegal trade. Since only male Asian elephants have tusks, they are afraid that the males will become extinct, and there will be no way for reproduction of the Asian species. To help these elephants last too, not just by stopping the poachers, but helping regrow our forest population too.
        Helping these elephants can be by donating, making others aware, and take action, make a club, group or social network page. You can donate in the link below to send money or purchase a product, where the people then use the money to help protect the animals habitat, secure the forests, and reduce human-animal conflict or interaction.   https://support.worldwildlife.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=main_onetime_2013&s_src=AWE1401GD914