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Elephants are the latest conflict resource | Africa Renewal - 1 views

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  • An average of about 45 elephants per day were illegally killed in 2011 in every two of five protected sites holding elephant populations in Africa, thanks to the growing illegal trade in ivory, which continues to threaten the survival of elephants on the continent. A joint report by four international conservation organizations says that 17,000 elephants were killed in 2011 alone and the amount of ivory seized has tripled over the last decade.
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      mphomaganya on 26 Apr 23
       
      the trade in ivory has not ended although it was banned and declared illegal to kill an elephant. Thousands of elephants have been found dead which is a threat to their existence. if the killing does not stop,in a decade or century to come they will be extint
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trade in ivory - 1 views

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  • mphomaganya on 26 Apr 23
     
    Trade of ivory was centered around the existence of elephants, without the tusk and teeth of the elephants there could not have been the trade in ivory. Elephants were hunted so that ivory can be extracted from them.
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Manufacture of Ivory Combs, Piano Keys, etc - 3 views

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      mphomaganya on 26 Apr 23
       
      the elephant tusks came from Salem ,Mass and Providence then they are used to make combs. I will paraphrase the process of making combs which will make you understand why such combs were expensive. The tusk is cut into circular blocks and then cut again into the length of a comb or a pianoforte key, as required. The exterior " husk " that has the ivory is then cut out, and the blocks are marked with a lead pencil as needed, depending on the size of the combs. The strips for combs are then cut off with a fine saw under close supervision. Following that, a very clever sorting machine separates them into sizes ranging from one to four inches and puts them in boxes circled by an unending leather belt. The combs are bleached in the bleach houfles ,and polished on a smooth wheel using a cotton cloth soaked in some unknown treatment (which has been substituted for buckskin). After each three dozen combs are polished, the wheels must be dressed. The comb is then sized, followed by the most delicate of all operations, cutting the teeth. This is accomplished using imported saws that are as finely tempered as the thinnest paper and as thin as the thinnest paper--so thin that they cut from forty.
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      mphomaganya on 26 Apr 23
       
      The company that manufactures the combs, and pianos, made a lot of money which in exchange resulted in high demand for ivory so that they can produce the materials that I mentioned. This leads to high numbers of elephants being killed which the author put as hunting and described as exciting. This might be the reason we have people poaching rhinos today because poaching animals was not seen as illegal or immoral
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Trade and Transformation: Participation in the Ivory Trade in Late 19th-Century East an... - 18 views

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Nobuhle Mapumulo History 2A

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  • he first participants in the trade were elephants, the only group for whom ivory was truly essential. Tusks had and have important functions for elephants. They are used in feeding, in marking territory, as both offensive and defensive weapons, and as markers of status (Shoshani, 1992, p. 48). The questions for further study arising here relate to the ways in which hunting by humans affected elephant populations. To what extent were their physical reproduction and collective behaviour affected as they were reduced in numbers left: 263.997px; top: 561.245px; fon
  • The issue of policital leaders is covered extensively in the literature, so I will simply highlight a few key issues. First, ivory had important and widespread political meanings as a sign of authority and an item of tribute. This was frequently expressed in terms of rights to the "ground tusk:' the tusk from the side of the dead elephant that lay on the ground. Ivory had corresponding uses in regalia and displays of power, both material and ritual. Second, like the slave trade, the ivory trade strengthened some political leaders and systems, but more often and left: 217.561px; top: 925.436px; font-size: 18.5417px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX
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      mphomaganya on 26 Apr 23
       
      the trade in ivory was not going to be a success without the elephants, in fact, it would not have lasted for a long time if elephants stopped reproducing and became extinct. Elephants played a significant in making areas that were covered in wood to be covered in grass allowing for human beings to harvest and live in those areas,the poaching led to a disturbance in the system of ecology
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      mphomaganya on 26 Apr 23
       
      Ivory was viewed as an item that made one rich and powerful, it was associated with royalty thus the term regalia was used. They viewed it as an item that can remove one from one disadvantaged social class to a wealthy class.
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