Chapter 568 (1/2)

Lin Hao couldn't help sighing!

Think of a public service advertisement you once saw.

A mother elephant and a baby elephant walked forward in the sunset on the beautiful grassland.

The little elephant said happily, ”Mom, I have teeth!”

“……”

”Mom, I have teeth!”

The little elephant couldn't wait for his mother's congratulations. Some were just silent and wondered, ”Mom, aren't you happy for me?”

Although in the past many years, I still have a deep impression on this public service advertisement.

Elephants choose not to grow teeth in order not to be poached, which makes people sad and disappointed.

Moreover, elephants do not have teeth, which not only makes it inconvenient to drink and eat, but also affects other creatures that rely on elephants for survival.

I don't know how many years it will take to truly reflect this intangible impact.

Lin Hao continued to look down: ”if the ivory falls off, can it grow back?”

The two long tusks that people usually say are exposed outside actually refer to the front teeth of elephants! In his mouth are molars.

The outside part is not all. One third is wrapped in the head.

There are only two ways to get ivory. One is to wait for the elephant to die naturally, and the other is to kill the elephant.

In order to obtain complete ivory, poachers use extremely cruel means. After hunting the elephant, they cut off their head and nose so that they can take out the ivory. When an elephant was cut for its ivory, it was not even completely dead.

Lin Hao thought of the elephant lying on the ground. He was cruelly gouged an ugly hole in his face. He kept lying out with blood. His nose was cut off and thrown on the ground. His long teeth were taken out. Only his huge body gradually rotted, and flies flew happily among the flesh and blood.

Just thinking about it, I can't help shivering, and a disgusting feeling rises in my heart!

The warehouse of Kenya Wildlife Protection Bureau once stored 132 tons of ivory from 12000 elephants, most of which were killed by stolen hunters. The warehouse was filled with a bloody smell, which made people can't bear to look directly at it.

After the visit, someone expressed such emotion: ”as soon as you enter the door, you smell the pungent smell of corpses, as if you see countless white bones. Seeing such a scene, you will never want to buy Ivory back, put it at home and wear it on your body, because you will feel that it is so cruel and ominous.”

There were no authoritative statistics on the number of elephants in the past, but people from all walks of life agree that in the 1970s and 1980s, the number of African elephants decreased sharply from 1.3 million to less than 500000, and even reported that it was less than 400000.

It is equivalent to almost 100 elephants dying every day.

Elephant populations are in danger of extinction because of poaching and the ivory trade.

The next question is, will the ivory be destroyed?

There is an idea that African countries have a lot of ivory stocks, and destruction is also a waste. If the ivory trade is legalized and there are formal channels to sell ivory, can we combat poaching? And put the money from selling ivory into the cause of protecting elephants.

However, the ideal is beautiful and the reality is cruel.

After opening up the legal trade in ivory, elephant poaching and black market smuggling increased significantly.

Legal trade has stimulated consumers' demand for ivory, and the mixture of legal and illegal has also brought difficulties to law enforcement.

Therefore, the ivory legal trade case was not passed, and 300 tons of ivory stocks have been destroyed all over the world.

It is embarrassing that China is the world's largest consumer of ivory, and ivory has become the identity symbol of the rich.