Extra Credit unit 4, Question #1

It’s a very hard to see if either the African or Asian elephant seems most likely to survive in our world.  The Asian elephant is very pliant and talented.  People might want to keep them around for this reason.  That’s why I see this elephant species’ population increasing, not decreasing.  I think people will breed them instead of kill them.  Yet, for a Poacher it wouldn’t matter to them.  But, still, People are incinerating elephant tusks to help both species.  The African elephants, though, are vulnerable since their population is increasing too rapidly; people want to decrease the population, not let the population get out of control.  There is a national agency to protect Asian elephants.  So, while the African elephants’ population is increasing more than the Asian elephants’, it seems more likely that the African elephants are fated to become victims, not saved.  The Asian elephant’s talent and lower population number makes them known and loved so that people will want to save them, and then they’ll forget about the African elephants, leaving them to poachers and campaigns to reduce their herds.