Slaughter of the African Elephants By Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels

In the article "Slaughter of the African Elephants" by Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels, Maisels and Strindberg talk about the killings of elephants that is going on in the African forest. This article includes reasearch from a study. The research that the study has collected was "A staggering 62 percent vanished from central Africa between 2002 and 2011.... We have just published with 60 other scientists in the journal PLoS One". This was one of the biggest search studies ever performed in the central Africa forest. One fcat in this article that i found interesting in this article was that they were killing these animals because they wanted to use their tusk. "An elephants tusk have become bling for consumers who have no idea or simply dont care that it was obtained by inflicting terror, horrendous pain and death on thinking, feeling, sel-aware beings". I believe that this is very wrong and that this should be against the law. I think that they xould at least wait until an elephants death, by nature, to take their tusk.