Despite the fact that ivory has been exported from East Africa for millennia or not for the first time in like forever, the expanding and consistently increasing scale of extraction in the nineteenth century almost certainly had a considerable impact on people, elephants, and the environment. However, in order to assess the local ecosystems that were most impacted by the trade, it is crucial to understand where this ivory was taken from and transported along East African caravan routes. So in short, this paper talks a lot more about how we need to understand where this ivory was taken from and how was it transported to other lands for trading.

This in short means that the country was rich in terms of ivory and everything. They normally sold it to other countries or neighboring lands in order to get beads, for clothing of course and cotton in order to make any clothing material.

Since the costs of the route are already quite high due to the high tribute expected by the several petty rulers along the line of road, the traders of Zanzibar will not be able to compete in the ivory trade on the lake. The lake's steamers completely took control over the market for ivory.