Elephants are being killed for their tusks.Poachers are using cyanide to killed elephants to have easy access to their tusks. "A total of 26 elephants carcasses were found dead on in just two weeks from cyanide poisoning in Hwange National Park, the largest game reserve in Zimbabwe. The latest incident, discovered on Tuesday, follows a poisoning last week that killed 14 elephants. Many of the carcasses were dismembered, as poachers hurried to remove their valuable tusks before rangers arrived."(Cronin). Another incident occurred in 2013 were three hundred elephants were killed by the same poison cyanide.Poachers can easy obtain this poison because is cheap and there is an abundance of it.Cyanide was put in the watering hole that elephants drank from. The poachers use this cheap drug to kill elephants. "In Zimbabwe, where gold mining is a lucrative industry, cyanide is simply a tool. Using mercury and sodium cyanide, smale-scale panners separate gold from ore, often dumping the leftovers into rivers" (Cronin) Cyanide it's also been dump into the rivers killing the organisms that live there.
My Reflection
I choose this article to make people aware of the of the mass killing of elephants that occurred this week. The elephants were poisoned by cyanide a cheap easy access toxin. The poachers contaminated the water hole that the elephants drank from.This article makes me ashamed for the human race because they would rather destroy our animals for a couple dollars. Its sad to think that one day the elephants with tusks won't exist because of the greediness of the human race . We should protect nature's animals because they are the ones providing the ecosystem service for free. We should repay them by not poisoning them.