Free Essays on The Poaching Of Elephants

  1. Elephant

    People see the endangered African elephant dressed in costumes and dancing at circuses, living solitary lives at zoos or giving thrill rides on their backs. But the largest land animal lives a life that is completely foreign to humans when left on their own in the wild, one complete with battles and...

  2. The Large Land Mammals

    Elephants are large land mammals in two genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta. Three species of elephant are living today: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant). All other species and genera of Elephantidae...

  3. Human Elephent Conflict

    dramatic inverse relationship between elephant and human populations in Africa. Elephants are found where human populations are the lowest, or, as in South Africa and Kenya, where elephants are largely within national parks or preserves. The root cause of human-elephant conflict is the exploding human population...

  4. Increasing Threats to Biodiversity

    biodiversity caused by deforestation, over fishing, hunting, poaching, the illegal trade in ivory and other species. In African Ecology, the Elephant is regarded as a keystone species. In a period of 60 years since 1930, the number of Elephants from 10 million has fallen down to 600,000 only due to habitat...

  5. Manas Wildlife Sanctuary

    only plants, but many endangered animals. Manas Wildlife Sanctuary is home to many species such as: tiger, wild buffalo, Indian bison, rhino, and elephant. In 1992 it was placed in the UNESCO’s List of World Heritage for wilds’ protection and preserving. This paper will address the diversity of the flora...

  6. Prevention to Creulty of Animals

    state such as battery cages,[8] bird sellers, dog breeding[9] and cruelty; poaching, encroachment and mismanagement at Corbett Tiger Reserve[10] and Rajaji National Park,[11] emu farming,[12] cow slaughter,[13] circuses, elephants,[14] deforestation, the monkey population,[15] illegal meat shops, police...

  7. Unesco Paper Sci 230

    the Congo Peacock. There are also some other endangered animals like the Zaire Peafowl, the Forest Elephant and the African Slender-Snouted Crocodile. The park also has some large mammals like Elephants, Hippopotamuses, Bongos, Giant Ground Pangolin, Forest Buffalo, Alligators and Golden Cats. Then there...

  8. the vanishing tigers

    hundreds every year in India. The Royal Bengal tiger is the only type that exists in India and their number is dramatically reduced every year because of poaching. The current number is approximately 2,000, all of which live in tiger reserves. Two hundred years ago the population was 23,000 (or more).  During...

  9. science

    contemporary environmental disaster. The main reason behind a threat to the wildlife and the ecosystem is the constantly growing deforestation, poaching and negligence towards animals and nature. At the present estimate, 81 species of mammals, 38 species of birds, 18 species of amphibians and reptiles...

  10. Endangered Species of India

    the wildlife to serious hazards. Infirm statutory provisions aggravated the situation. Faced with a shrinking habitat, competition from cattle, and poaching hazards, the prospects for wildlife are grim. The wild herbivore populations, which not very long ago were teeming and displayed wide variety in most...

  11. tour

    Indian bustard, Bengal florican, nilgai etc  NH 7 slices crucial corridor forests between Pench and Kanha Tiger Reserves in Central India. ii. Poaching – of Rhino in Kaziranga and Manas national park is rampant. iii. Invasive species - invasive species can run amok in an ecosystem and send a park’s...

  12. apj life and career

    through media and film show, setting up nature clubs in educational institutions". POACHING AND HUNTING Poaching is the illegal hunting, killing or capturing of animals. This can occur in a variety of ways. Poaching can refer to the failure to comply with regulations for legal taking of wildlife that...

  13. Biology ecology

    august in order to graze and mate. Some of Africa’s most prized trophy animals can also be found in the Masa Mara region: Lions, leopards, African Elephants, Cape buffalo and black rhinoceros. The latter’s population has dropped to as low as 15 individuals, but have been slowly increasing since the late...

  14. Ecology Is Important

    done to prevent or stop it. We have already witnessed the Rhinos, African elephants and the Siberian tigers follow through on the same process and now they are on the brink of extinction. I think legal hunting and poaching are similar in the sense that they both result in the same end process of dead...

  15. Do Animals Deseve Animal Rights?

    some way? Psychoanalyst Jeffery Moussaieff Masson records his observations on African elephants in his book When Elephants Weep. One scene in particular stood out. In this scene, Masson observes a herd of elephants as they try desperately to revive a fallen matriarch. Herd members try their hardest to...

  16. Animals Right

    captivity. The idea of re-introduction is troubled with serious difficulties. Poaching animals is such a problem that threatened species and it will never be safe in the wild until attitudes change and the culture of poaching is vanishes. It will be so hard to find a home that is suitable and safe for...

  17. War and Consequence

    wildlife and environment (Zajtman, 2006). According to one individual, many workers have been killed and many animals have continued to experience poaching (Zajtman, 2006). “One of the most important parks in the Congo is Virunga Park, which “stretches 8/000 sq km along DR Congo’s border with Rwanda and...

  18. Gktukgy

    Fish and Wildlife Service to list the African lion as endangered, arguing that the population had fallen dangerously low because of habitat loss, poaching, commercial hunting and new diseases associated with human encroachment. “The U.S.,” their petition said, “is by far the largest importer of hunting...

  19. Zambia - Research Paper

    rain in the mining and refining regions, soil erosion from farming, the poaching of endangered animals s m cvgftffcfxfyfhg Other diseases include Typhoid, hepatitis, malaria, rabies, and bubonic plague.uch as rhinoceros, elephant and large cats. The area is subject to periods of drought and also...

  20. Why Were the Authorities Unable to Control and Get Rid of Poaching or Smuggling in the 18th Century?

    why were the authorities unable to control and get rid of poaching or smuggling in the 18th century? The main reason why the authorities couldnt get rid of smuggling or poaching was because everyone did it. By this i mean poor people and rich people( which includes ordinary people and majistrates)...

  21. HTT 210 Week 9 Dream Vacation

    by a Ranger supplied by the park authorities. While in the national Park we will stay out on a safari drive and see Manyara’s tree climbing lions, elephants, baboons, wildebeest, Buffalo, hippo, flamingo, warthog and many amazing birding sites (Tanzania Odyssey, 2014). From here we will head to Tanzania...

  22. Similarities in “Salvation” and “Shooting an Elephant”

    Similarities in “Salvation” and “Shooting an Elephant” Conformity is a part of life all must cope with. Society demands people to fulfill certain roles or actions. This can be seen in George Orwells “Shooting an Elephant”, and Langston Hughes' “Salvation.” In both works of literature the main characters...

  23. ENG 125 Week 2 Assignment Hills Like White Elephants

    ENG 125 Week 2 Assignment Hills Like White Elephants To Purchase this Tutorial Copy And Paste Below Link In Your Browser http://www.homework-bank.com/downloads/eng-125-week-2-assignment-hills-like-white-elephants/ For Any Information or Any Class Which you Did not find on Our Website , Just Hit US...

  24. biodiversity

    medicinal plant trade, which has threatened plant life in the area. 3. Poaching: Large mammals such as the tiger, rhinoceros and the elephant once faced the distinct possibility of complete extinction due to rampant hunting and poaching. However, efforts by conservationists since the 1970s has helped stabilize...

  25. Dolphins and Elephants

    Who's smarter Dolphins or Elephants? Some people say that dolphins are smarter than elephants but some people think that what is really true is that elephants are smarter than dolphins but who is right and who is wrong? Elephants actually have the longest period of learning - next to humans –...

  26. Physiology - Elephants

    Physiology – Elephants Elephants are truly remarkable creatures. In order to adapt to their unique environment, these creatures have evolved and developed a number of physiological aspects within their anatomy that help them to survive. For example, an elephant’s ears can be used to help regulate...

  27. Hills Like White Elephants

    Ernest Hemingway:Hills like white elephants In story Hills like white elephants by Ernest Hemingway ,author uses many symbols to provide that American guy forces a girl to get an abortion,and he shows us a life dilemmas. In the begining of the story author shows us a beuatiful landscape of...

  28. To Shoot and Elephant, Orwell Summary

    Orwell feels strongly against both sides and fails to fully commit the entirety of his mind behind any decision regarding the fate of the escaped elephant in this tale. This struggle between Orwell’s logic and reason versus the social pressure and sympathy he feels from the ever-growing herd of locals...

  29. Birth Mark Hills Like White Elephants

    The Birth-Mark versus Hills Like White Elephants In the short stories “The Birth-Mark” and “Hills Like White Elephants” the themes: talking versus communicating, the foolishness of striving for perfection, and ultimately male dominance are portrayed heavily. Both of the protagonists in the stories...

  30. Shooting an Elephant

    Shooting an Elephant It’s about shooting an elephant. Duh. No, honestly I felt like the story could have been taken many different ways and put into many different concepts. For me the whole time I was reading all I could think of was hey there is this guy working for people that A hate him and...

  31. Letter of Complaint

     of  the  modern-­day  elephant.       5.1     5.2     5.3     5.4     5.5     5.6     5.7   Name  the  ancestor  of  the  elephant.   When  did  the  ancestor  of  the  elephant  first  appear  on  Earth?   How  does  the  ancestor  differ  from  modern-­day  elephants?   Give  the  scientific...

  32. Orwell's Shooting an Elephant

    Orwell’s shooting an Elephant In life we all face situations where we have to make troubling decisions. At times we don’t want to think for our selves and allow others to make the decision for us. There’s so many ways we all allow this to happen whether it be others telling us, quilting us, using temptation...

  33. A Critical Reading of “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway.

    A Critical Reading of “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway, Ernest Miller (1899-1961) is one of the most popular and influential American writers of the 20th century, known primarily for his novels and stories. The topics covered by Hemingway are eternal. He wrote about human...

  34. summary of "Hills like white elephants"

    Hills, White Elephants, Rails Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an outstanding American author whose style is famous for brief and easily understanding words but which challenges readers to explore the hidden implication. “Hills Like White Elephants” which is from his 1927 collection Men Without Women...

  35. Elephants Toothpaste

    Elephants Toothpaste Introduction: Aim: To see if the experiment is endothermic or exothermic and to see which percentage of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) Hypothesis: The experiment is exothermic and the hydrogen peroxide with the highest percentage will have the highest temperature change. Materials: ...

  36. Hills like white Elephants. Essay

    Hills like white Elephants "Hills like white elephants", by Ernest Hemingway, is a story that takes place at a train station where a couple is discussing a life decision. The story doesn't clearly state what the couple is arguing about, but one can guess through the author's symbolism that it is about...

  37. Hills Like White Elephants: a Man and a Woman's View of Abortion

    Hills Like White Elephants, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a story that takes place in Spain while a man and woman wait for a train. The story is set up as a dialogue between the two, in which the man is trying to convince the woman to do something she is hesitant in doing. Through out the story, Hemingway...

  38. Symbolism Simplified: Hills Like White Elephants

    A White Elephant: Symbolism In Hemingway’s Simplicity Certain moments in life carry a great significance, and with them the idea that time itself may stop, creating a clear view of the minuscule and hidden details of our own realities. Ernest Hemingway, a masterful writer of the twentieth century...

  39. Analyses on "Hills like White Elephants"

    The Elephant in the Room In the story, “Hills like White Elephants”, written by Ernest Hemingway, there are two major characters, the man called “The American” and his girlfriend, “Jig”. Since they had been traveling...

  40. Naming the Elephant

    Naming the Elephant Worldview as a Concept History and Philosophy of Ideas GRS601 AA February 9, 2014 James Sire, the author of the book Naming the Elephant Worldview as a Concept, is a Christian author and philosopher. This interesting book shares an interesting view of worldview. Sire defines...

  41. Araby and Hills Like White Elephants

    transforming a neighbor girl into something larger than life, a spot of light in an otherwise dark and somber environment. In Hemingway’s Hills like white elephants, the story is told through a conversation between a young woman and a man waiting for a train in Spain. As they talk, it becomes clear that the woman...

  42. Hills like white elephants

    Hills Like White Elephants By Ernest Hemingway The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station there was the warm shadow of the building and...

  43. Short Story Interpretation of Hills Like White Elephants

    Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway was born in Illinois in 1891. He participated in World War I, and the time he spent there provided much material for his writing. He has written many well-known books, for example “A Farewell to Arms” and “The Sun Also Rises”. The short story “Hills Like...

  44. Hills Like White Elephants: Beliefs in Life

    Leona Ghostine Miss Anna Kibaris 603-101-04 06 Friday, November 24, 2008 Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”, written in 1927, exposes the way men and women have different beliefs concerning life altering subjects, fundamental issues of life. The...

  45. Forensic Archeology Essay

    Soil and plant material transferred to spade during a badger digging incident • Paint transfer or smashed headlight glass from a vehicle used in a poaching incident • Bark and lichen on clothing and tree climbing irons used during an egg collecting incident 10 Chapter 2: Scenes of crime examinations ...

  46. De Thi Tieng Anh Dai Hoc

    Maria: “ ____.” A.Not for me B. Not at all C. Never mind D. Not enough Question 12: Due to ever more spreading poaching, there ______ a dramatic decline in the number of elephants over the last decade. A.has been B. is C. was D. had been Question 13: _____ make a good impression on her. ...

  47. Meat

    meat is tender. Cooking in liquid Simmering, stewing and poaching are all ways to cook in liquid. Simmering and stewing are similar procedures, except that simmering is used for whole cuts of meat while stewing is used for smaller pieces. Poaching is used for more tender cuts. In simmering and stewing...

  48. Rhinos

    The Problem: There has been poaching since 2000 years ago, in Asia. Poaching can be for fun or for money. Africa has two rhinos: White and Black. The white rhino can be 8000 pounds and the black rhino can be 3000 pounds. People want rhinos for their skin to make armor, meat to eat, and horn for...

  49. Yolo

    known as Project Tiger, to protect the Bengal tiger. Despite increased efforts by Indian officials, poaching remains rampant and at least one Tiger Reserve has lost all their tiger population to poaching. The Bengal Tiger is found in parts of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Burma. The habitat...

  50. Endangered speices

    Vietnam. High estimates say there are fewer than 2000 left in the world low estimates say 700. The primary reason for the decline in their population is poaching and loss of habitat. Sumatran Tiger - This beautiful big cat is a native of Indonesia. Over the last fifty years, its numbers have decreased drastically...

  51. Problems of Humankind

    Kyle Crislip Shooting an Elephant “When a man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.” The particular sentence in the story “Shooting an Elephant” sums up and explains many of the problems of humankind throughout history. Nevertheless, humankind keeps making the same mistakes repeatedly...

  52. Frankensteins Cat

    Research of Endangered Species (ACRES). “We exist because we want to see wildlife in the future,” Dresser says of ACRES. “I can’t imagine just seeing elephants and lions and tigers just in textbooks, like we see dinosaurs today.” To make sure that these species stick around, Dresser, who directed ACRES for...

  53. Trip 5

    In Thailand we went to this place where we can ride elephants, we don’t ride on their backs, they put like a chair for two or three people to sit down. When we went to take the trip to ride the elephant, the elephant was huge, I didn’t expect it to be this big. To sit on it we can’t just jump on...

  54. Saving the Sundarbans

    plaguing the Sundarbans are- reduced flow of sweet water into Sundarban mangrove system, extension of non-forestry land use into mangrove forest and poaching of tigers, spotted deer, wild boars, marine turtles, horse shoe crabs etc. Although forest officials deny that any indiscriminate felling...

  55. How the changing in the habitat influencing in the decline of the Amur leopard

    the borderline of Russia are in constant threat caused by both humanistic and environmental hazards. These include things such as; deforestation; poaching; loss of prey; weather; hunters and even breeding. If this species were to be eradicated this would cause a ‘loss of genetic diversity in a global...

  56. Annotated Bibliography: Childrens Books

    to 100 years ago. Hänel, W. (2001). Little Elephant Runs Away. New York: North-South Books. Little Elephant Runs Away tells of a brave elephant cub that decided to run away from his family after feeling bullied by his siblings. At first, the elephant cub seems to enjoy his newfound independence....

  57. Running Wild Bk. Report

    to the States because he read a brochure and he saw that he could ride an elephant. Half way though the playlist we hit I Can’t Stop by Flux Pavilion and this is about when Will gets to go on an elephant ride and the elephant senses something and starts running towards the forest. A couple of seconds...

  58. Jataka Tales

    then got a rogue elephant and set it among the people. Everybody screamed and ran away. Buddha calmly kept walking towards the elephant. When the elephant was about to trample a little baby on the street, Buddha touched the elephant on its forehead, which at once cooled down the elephant. The wild animal...

  59. Fsdfs

    stories and novels, work like “For Whom The Bells Toll”, and “Hills Like White Elephants” earned him a great audience and also a Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. In this essay I will be talking about “Hills Like White Elephants”. Ernest Hemingway a writer a volunteer; born in Oak Park, Illinois on July...

  60. Swot and Pestel

    than 100 years ago. They purchased Colombo Ice Company in 1894 which was producing ice and mineral water those days. It is now mainly recognized as Elephant House .In 1936; CCS introduced latest machinery in their production line to introduce carbonated soft drinks. The principal activities of the Company...