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Asian Elephants
The Asian Elephant's ivory was now banned from being hunted -
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Timeline of population
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1980's population
In the 1980's the Elephants population in Africa was estimated to be 1.3 million elephants! -
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African Elephants in decline
Throughout this decade, around 75,000 African elephants were killed for the ivory trade annually, a trade worth around 1 billion dollars. About 80% of this was estimated to come from illegally killed elephants. -
Massive decline of the African elephant
In 1989 people have found out that population of the elephant's had decreesed from 1.3 million to only 600 000 elephants were left. -
Meetings of banning ivory trade
A debate was called up bymany countries that something should be done to save the African elephants' lives and regrow the population. -
Ivory internationally banned
In January 1990 when the decision was enacted, the international trade in ivory was banned. That is when poachers become trading with the black market very often. The ban on ivory helped the elephant population regrow. -
Kruger National Park
Many South Africans opposed the ban on ivory because they need the money. But because South Africa was part of the slaughter of the African elephants and that Kruger National Park (A national park where animals are preseverd.) home to 95% of South Africa elephants. The law stayed the same and the African elephants' population continued to grow stronger. -
Increase of population of African and Asian elephants
According to IUCN’s African Elephant Status Report 2007,[35] there are between 470,000 and 690,000 African elephants in the wild. Which is a big improvement and still the population is still growing at 4.5% a year. and now the Asian's population is between 38,000 and 53,000 wild elephants 1/10 of the African population. -
Now
Both populations of elephants are growing back to a higher number more then 15 years ago. and Hopefully the populations will regrow to their original numbers.
