Elephants are a fascinating keystone species that knocks down trees, creates new trails through the brush and digs watering holes that can be used by other animals. However, they have been poached for centuries and their role in their ecosystem is at risk. In this video we explore how the elephant has so far managed to survive the ivory trade, where populations are declining and increasing as well as some concrete examples of what has been done to conserve them.
We will cover both the African and Asian species.
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# ABOUT THIS VIDEO
Elephant species are spread across two continents, Africa and Asia.
All of them are keystone species, meaning their presence is particularly crucial to their respective environments, yet they remain among the most trafficked animals on the planet. That’s why we’re talking about them in this miniseries about the survival stories of the most trafficked species on the planet.
00:00 Intro
01:21 The history of ivory
02:47 The rise of elephants in Kenya
03:30 The first ivory burns
04:09 Potential problems going forward
04:43 The state of elephants in Tanzania
05:53 Conservation gone wrong
06:52 Forest Elephants VS Savannah Elephants
08:13 Mossy Earth advert
09:13 What about Asian Elephants?
10:30 An unforeseen consequence
11:05 The future of the ivory trade
11:48 How can we all help?
12:34 Summary
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very nice videos sir
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I wish I could interact with an elephant or dolphin and feel their intelligence for myself. We're not so different
A world without elephants is irrelevant and not elegant at all!
I don't agree that babies are used in Thailand. They are domesticated generations ago. Their grandmothers or great grandmothers are probably the ones captured as infants. Their mothers were born in captivity and so are they now.
Not Asian markets CHINESE markets.
Poachers and Traffickers should ALL be shot on sight. ALL wildlife poachers and traffickers.
The aim of the poaching is the extinction of the species. It would drive the prices up because there is no supply. Looping trophy hunters into the same category as poachers is quite frankly insulting. Poachers hunt illegally, and hunters get a tag to hunt a particular species or animal for a variety of reasons.
How can Allan Savory's Wikipedia page not even mention his involvement in killing those elephants? I suspect he wrote it himself
Why use ivory if you can use teeth of people involved in ivory market!
This is a great video. Allen savory has admitted his mistake and said he’ll take it to his grave. He knows he fucked up. He also has noted the elephants’ importance in actually maintaining the environment and even reversing desertification (what he initially thought they were causing). Common sense tells us that animals native to an environment do not degrade that environment, they play a crucial role. I’m glad more people seem to be realizing this. Thanks so much for sharing.
I love how this channel isn't all doom and gloom. seeing the results of successful conservation and rewilding efforts, gives more hope and motivation to try harder than when they say it's all to late.
Not surprised everyday chinese citizens support the ban, chances are the people buying animal parts are to them what essential oils boomers are to westerners, only they drive animals into extinction instead of trying to get everyone killed by various plagues.
is this the same Richard Leaky who is a famous anthropologist?
My parents have two tusks not carved or anything they are antique and have been passed down through the family since about 1900. They want to get rid of them but have no idea how. They don't approve of what they represent and can't sell them. Throwing them out doesn't seem feasible.
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Elphant is my favorite animal that are being killed by these greedy dumb poachers
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ok you've got a few things wrong there. First off, population growth rates are on average 8.1% per year, with places like the Okavango and Kruger experiencing 16.5% growth per year. Secondly, that growth is not balanced by natural death in a lot of places, if it was, we wouldn't have huge areas of southern Africa with too many elephants for the habitat available.
Oh and Kenya's band on trophy hunting has only really worked for elephants. Rhinos, giraffes, and many rare antelope species have actually experienced massive declines over the past 20+ years, whilst southern African countries that encourage trophy hunting, have seen an opposing trend of great population growth. You see trophy hunting gives land owners a reason to keep not just a couple, but whole herds of elephants on their land year round, instead of pushing them out or killing them as soon as they are seen on their property.
I get the demand for ivory for teeth but like their other animals with large enough tusks for that though.
Wait dentin can be made from plants? How?
I have two tusks of a young elephant with bite marks of something on it, may be a lion or hyenas idk. My grandpa found the carkasse of a small elelphant when my family lived in Angola and it was still a Portuguese colony. I put them on the wall next to some Ironwood art, like masks and figurines, from local Angolan artists.
It's a cool material…our friends allways think it's just heavy plastic..
If 26 million elephants loose 5% of it's population by natural death and replace 5% every year, wouldn't that make for way more ivory than currently gets on the black marked through puching? Just collecting ivory from naturally died elephant carcasses and a way bigger population, couldn't that be a win-win solution?
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Ivory ,, something we dont need from the last century
Marble looks better than ivory anyways
I think it's a bit unfair to Savory mentionninghim in such an off handed manner.
He wasn't alone on this, he was following the "science" at the time and he's the guy who learned from this mistake (and all the underlying ideas). That's why he's perhaps the guy denouncing this kind of ideas the most
Speaking of alternative "ivory', there are even indian crafters that continue their tradition by using bones of animals from butchers instead as their alternative and they look about as real. There really never was a reason for ivory to be logically poached.
So Asia are mentally like 50 years behind Europe 😀
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Why do you even need ivory for ? Rich people are freaking dumb and most importantly cruel AF .
Russia is growing in the ivory market, exploring their mammoth ivory reserves
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Shocked to learn a white Rhodesian had a stupid and cruel idea based on seemingly nothing.