Asian Elephants Endangered

The Asian Elephant is generally smaller than an African Elephant. The biggest threats to the Asian elephant today are the destruction or
breaking up of their habitat because of logging, agriculture,
infrastructure development and human settlement. It means when elephants try to follow traditional migration corridors or
find food, they may instead come up against roads, fields and villages.
This leads to increasing conflict between people and elephants, which
can be fatal for both sides – hundreds of people and elephants are
killed this way every year.They are also poached for their skin, meat and ivory tusks. Even though the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
banned the international trade in ivory in 1989, there are still some
thriving but unmonitored domestic ivory markets in a number of Asian and
other countries, which fuel an illegal international trade. We can habitats and improve connections between fragmented areas where Asian elephants live. We can work with governments and local communities to reduce conflict between people and elephants, decrease poaching, and influence policy and legislation to benefit elephant conservation. We can also work with TRAFFIC (the wildlife trade monitoring network) to reduce illegal trade in major markets for elephant products, and to help governments enforce restrictions on the trade in elephant products. And we can find ways to help improve the livelihoods of people living alongside elephants, through activities that link economic development with elephant conservation.

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