Hunter Wood's article discusses the threats facing elephant populations in Kenya from poaching for ivory tusks. Tusks are used by elephants for tasks like digging but are also targets for poachers who sell tusks for large sums of money. At the current rate of poaching, elephants in Kenya could become extinct by 2020 as populations decline and the ratio of males to females is disrupted. The article calls for increased protection of elephants to prevent further killing and tusk removal that endanger these animals.

1. Save the Elephants
By: Hunter Wood

2. Tusks being used
Tusk is used for:
• Digging for water,
roots and salt, and
remove tree and
fallen bunches.
• Fighting especially by
the bulls- so tusks
can be weapons too.

3. Killing Elephants
We need to stop all
people that are killing
the elephant.
There was twenty two
dead elephants in
Kenya.

4. Tusk being Sold
People are taking these
prize tusk and are
selling them for lots of
money.
The tusk weight 200
pounds and reach up
to 10 feet in length.

5. Facts about Elephants
• It is rare to see a elephant with long tusk
because they wear off and they break too.
• The elephants in Kenya could become
extinct as son as 2020.

6. The elephant might be extinct in
Kenya in about 2020s.

7. The large bulls poached, the
elephants population is now 70%
females.

8. I think we need to be watching the
elephants most of the time so they
don’t get killed or get there tusks
taken.

9. • Please Help These Magnificent
Creatures