Elephants Hunting
Elephant is the animal that once was on Thailand flag which means that it represents Thai people ,but its also one of the wild animal that has been hunted for a long time.
When did it start?
Its believed that people have been hunting elephants for thousand of years already
Where?
Most common places that people will hunt elephants and trade out are in South Africa(Kenya Algeria etc.) and Asia (India Thailand China Japan Korea etc.)
Why?
People hunt elephants because they want to steal their ivory and sell out to become accessory to human and take away elephants baby to train and become circus elephant.
How?
Now adays humans technology is really advance such as gun. We have a a specific gun to beat down an elephant just in less that 2 minutes.
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How is it connecting/resulting in overhunting/captivity/cruelty?
According to the question How? We human use guns to take them down so easily and the demand of baby elephants and ivory keep increasing every year mostly in Asia just to use them to become accessory and part of the holy rite. For this reason inspire local people to hunt them down and sell out because its an easy way to get money .
Create a COMPASS analysis on this current trend. N.E.S.W
- Nature - Elephant eats about 150 kilograms per day which 60% elephant dung has become food for other animals. And because it doesn't digest elephants become a transporter for plants seed to spread in distance. Elephants like to dig out small trees make a small seedling comes out and grow replace the big tree.
- Economy - Elephants hunting creates so many jobs for people such as hunting trading or carving but it also destroy the beauty of the wild animal for other career such as guide or people who's taking care of these animals.
- Society - People won't be able to experience how does it feel to ride an elephant. Some people doesn't feel right that elephant the symbol of Thai walking around the street being force but they still do nothing about it.
- Well-being - It's good to have a good and new style looking accessories that comes from ivory and to have pianos key to play.
Do you have any personal connections/experience towards this current trend?
Yes, I have seen people keeping elephants and train them to let the tourist ride in Ayutthaya. And I have seen a person walking with an elephant selling banana or sugarcane to people and feed them to the elephant.
Are there any local organizations/awareness campaign/etc supporting a more balanced option for this current trend?
http://www.elephant-soraida.com/main/th/
How can we reach a more balanced and sustainable solution?
We offer people a better jobs and educate them how important the elephants are. Or find the replacement for things that are made by ivory such as piano keys we use plastic instead and accessory there are so many other jewelry that's prettier than ivory why don't we use them like emerald.
Discussion Questions for class
- In my opinion we can't actually stop this cruelty on elephants because the more we protect them the more rare they become and it will increase the demand and their price up ,so is there any other way we can actually do anything about this ?
- If we sees elephants walking aside the street what can we do other than support them by buying a food to feed itself?
- People catch baby wild elephant and sell out. Mostly this will happens around the border between Thailand-Burma because baby elephants are easy to catch and transport also the demand of baby elephants are more than adult elephants. Most of the buyers are elephant training group that will train these elephants to be Circus Elephant Show.
- Hunting elephants to take their ivory. There has been ivory trading in Thailand for a thousand years ,most of the ivory will be brought to carve as decoration or part of the rite.
- Hunting elephants to take their organs such as ivory tails and genital of males elephants which these are just a byproduct of hunting for ivory or baby elephants
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