30.battle for the elefants education

-learn about the illegal Ivory trade and Africa's Elefants

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/battle-for-elephants/?ar_a=1

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/blog/a-voice-for-elephants/

At the try of being the voice to the elephants the National Geographic team made a film about "Battle for the Elephants" were it exposes the viewers into seeing the brutal slaugthers of the African elephants for their precious tusks fueled by China's great demand for ivory. The film becomes a voice to these historic and majestic land animals that today faces market forces driving the value of its tusks to levels once reserved for gold. Through a blog managed by the journalists Bryan Christy and Aidan Hartley takes the viewers and readers of the National Geographic into examining the supply and demans for ivories in the chinese trade market. Traveling to China with Christy it is shown how the thriving ivory market is being proceeded and the ancient chinese tradition of ivory carving. While Hartley makes a journey to Africa where he gains a rare permission to enter the ivory stockpiles and goes undercover to expose the criminal ivory trade network. While Hartley visited the warehouses and said ,"You can smell it, it's almost like dried blood. There is smell of death in here. All these are confiscated trophies." and Aidan meets with Khamis Kagasheki, minister of natural resources in Tanzania, which stores the world’s largest stockpile of elephant tusks in the world. Unlike Kenya Tanzania which is known to be one of the world's poorest countries disagrees with burning the tusks arguing that the money from sales could support conversation efforts. Aidan expresses his idea by stating, "  An official told us that if an international agency were to buy the tusks with the intention of burning them, they would eagerly sell them. But who would support such an idea?"

 For being a desperately poor country many in Tanzania would like to sell the ivory inside the warehouse, but others worry that another sale would make the demand for this material higher  and would lead into more poaching. Most experts believe that the world's leading ivory consumer is China. According to Bryan christy the underground market is having a blast , CITES announced that about 25,000 elephants were killed in Africa last year, in Tanzania alone,poachers kill 30 elephants per day and the International Fund for Animal Welfare estimates that 84 percents of the ivory sold to China is illegal.One thing is left clear, maybe the last battle for the elephants are being fought now.

These several authors does not only represent the National Geographic channel , but also battles for the elephant's rights and lives. Hartley for example did the impossible of entering a ivory warehouse in order to be able to report what kind of crimes happens upon the African Elephants the author uses drastic vocabulary to express the world's concern on these elephants. The author is direct and clear uses examples and his own experience to express the unsaid and unknown, giving out percise information . His intention is to gather people attention to make a louder voice for these elephants making everyone to exposed to this elephants crises instead of leaving them ignorant to such situations.