Nathaniel

Nathaniel

A social issue is an issue that has an effect on a large number of people. The social issue I will be discussing is endangered elephants. Before I started reading this book, I thought that elephants were just regular, free animals. But after I read this book I started to understand that elephants are very badly endangered. I have learned a lot about elephants throughout this unit on endangered elephants. I will tell you some facts about elephants, problems, and possible solutions to solve those problems.

I know many interesting facts about elephants for instance, I know that elephants are herbivores. Elephants have prehensile ( something able to move things) trunks. Elephants that come from Asia usually do not have tusks . Do you know that elephants are beginning to charge at people for destroying their habitats? Elephants have huge ears that they can fan when they are tired and hot .Elephants have not been able to find food since people started ruining their habitats . Most importantly they are endangered animals.

There are many reasons why elephants are endangered. Habitat loss, ivory poaching, killed during wars, and working elephants. But ivory poaching and working elephants are main causes. Elephants get poached for ivory that makes jewelry and art. Elephants also get taken away from herds to work for Asians and Africans.

There are many things you can do to help elephants. A couple of solutions I have are, to vote on all places to be off-limits to hunters. Another three solutions are to convince zoos to make more places for captivity and, people shouldn’t have elephants work for them. You could easily make your own website, to help endangered elephants also.

Even though elephants aren’t humans, they still have feelings. People should respect them. You would go into other farmers food if you didn’t have any either. So I’d appreciate it if you helped elephants, they would too. Thank-you.