Khalil

Ivory Poaching

A social issue is an issue that in involves the whole community. My issue is about elephants and why people are killing elephants for their tusks. Hello my name is Khalil. I go to a school called ECS which stands for Excellence Charter School. I’m going to tell all about how I love elephants. But, there is a problem. People are killing elephants! In my essay, you are going to read about how elephants are becoming endangered because of ivory poaching. I hope you enjoy this great essay and that you learn a lot.

I’m going to tell you why we should care about elephants. The reason we should care about elephants is because elephants are on their own to protect them. But the thing that is amazing is elephants eat up to 300 pounds of food in one day! Another cool fact is they can drink up 50 gallons of water! Just think about that elephants drink less than they eat! The last cool fact is about a herd. Did you know a herd is a group of elephants? And the leader is a matriarch, which means a female elephant. I just told you some very cool facts about elephants.

The issue I’m going to tell about ivory poaching. Did you know ivory is made out of elephant’s tusks? And they use ivory to make money. Poachers kill elephants just for their ivory tusks and then they sell it to other people to make jewels. One time, Mr. de Leon showed us a picture of two poachers of an elephant’s face cut off. At first I thought the two poachers cut its face off but now I know that the men were helping the elephants. But the poachers cut off the face. When I saw a picture of an elephant’s face cut off because of the poachers I was disgusted by that. And did you know that elephant’s tusks are deep inside them. Elephants are almost extinct because of the war that’s going on. People are shooting the elephants with machine guns just to take elephant’s tusks.

I think people who live in Asia and Africa look out for elephants and if they do they can move all the elephants to a safe place. For example, they can move them to there homes backyard. To keep the elephants alive, we need to feed them ,bathe them and give them water. Here are things people in the United States can do. For example, if somebody passes a store that’s says. “Get your ivory and jewels.” I would think for a moment and keep on walking. Instead I would buy like those Jesus piece that is wooden that’s what I’m buying.

In conclusion, people should have to learn from this essay because people are killing elephants. They are dying just because people you know want to get ivory jewelry. I hope you love my five paragraph essay and that you learned a lot.