1. ELEPHANTS African & Asian
ANIMALS IN DANGER

2. AFRICAN ELEPHANT INFO

3. ASIAN ELEPHANT INFO

4. Learning Objectives Have students watch IFAW video on elephants:
work/education/elephants-never-forget-animal-action- education-video
Students will research threats to both the African and Asian elephant by gathering, evaluating and organizing data from a variety of sources such as the video above.

5. List types of threats to African and Asian elephant
1) How does the threat affect the elephant?
2) Through your research what did you find to be the biggest threat to African elephants?
Through your research what did you find to be the biggest threat to the Asian elephant?
3) Is anything being done to prevent this threat to continue?
Survival
Poaching
Human-conflict
See Create and Compare chart

6. Question - Create - Compare Research
What are the main threats to elephants? African - Asian
Who is being affected more – the elephants or humans?
Which elephant is already endangered?
Where is this taking place in the world?
Why are they being poached?
When will elephants become extinct if nothing is done to help them?

7. Create and Compare charts
Threats
African
Asian
What is being done
African
Asian
Threats:
1) Poaching
2) Human-elephant conflict
3) Hunting
4) Climate Change
What is being done:
Conservation groups work to protect habitat and migration routes by building migratory corridors and conserving large roaming habitat areas like Tsavo National Park largest park in Kenya. By protecting habitats, especially the forests, they can help reduce climate change. Conservationist also monitor an elephants movements by placing a GPS collar on them. This helps with alerting farmers and humans to let them know if elephants are near them and GPS collars also help to detect poachers and if elephants have been poached. New technology invented by scientists allows ivory to be tested to see where it came from called DNA testing. Conservationist help to try and enforce the ban on ivory as well and campaigns are done educating people NOT to buy ivory. Governments, businesses, conservationists, community and people ALL need to work together to end poaching and save elephants and their habitats.

8. Identify types of threats
1 )Poaching
2) Hunting
3) Human-Elephant conflict
4) Deforestation –climate change

9. African and Asian threats to survival
Chart 1 – In 1979 there were 1.3 M Elephants – ,000 – ,000 savannah elephants left – Poaching and Habitat shrinkage main cause
Chart 2 – Sumatran Elephant – 70% of habitat destroyed in one generation from deforestation – Males targeted for tusks from poachers to sell for money

10. HOW CAN YOU HELP?
WRITE YOUR POLITICIANS – DEMAND APPENDIX 1 FOR ALL ELEPHANTS
LEARN ABOUT, SUPPORT AND VOLUNTEER FOR ORGANIZATIONS THAT WORK TO PROTECT HABITAT FOR WILD ELEPHANTS AND FIND SOLUTIONS FOR HUMAN-ELEPHANT CONFLICT
DO NOT SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS THAT EXPLOIT OR ABUSE ELEPHANTS AND OTHER ANIMALS FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND PROFIT
DO NOT BUY IVORY!