14 DAY TRIAL // Each and every year, tens of thousands of elephants are slaughtered by poachers. The latter kill the animals in order to get their hands on their tusks, which they later sell on illegal markets to people who use them to manufacture ivory trinkets.
In the video above, which is part of a five-episode series on poaching, the World Wildlife Fund stresses that, contrary to what some might think, elephants are not trinkets. Otherwise put, they don't deserve being butchered just so that tourists can bring home ivory souvenirs.
“In almost all cases of elephant poaching, the elephant is shot and has its ivory tusks hacked out with machetes or a chain saw.”
“Ivory comes from a living animal that suffered enormously before dying—all for the sake of an elephant figurine, an ivory trinket, or a souvenir,” the organization tells people.
The third episode in the World Wildlife Fund's Stop Wildlife Crime series deals with tiger poaching. The fourth video details the horrors of rhino poaching.
Episodes one and five explain why wildlife crime must be put an end to as soon as possible, and tells the story of rangers who do their best to protect endangered species targeted by poachers.
The video above contains graphic images that some might find disturbing, so viewer discretion is recommended when watching it.