Abstract
Sir David Attenborough once said, 'the question is, are we happy to suppose that our grand children may never be able to see an elephant except in picture books?'. Elephants used to be widespread all over Africa, but the largest of all mammals has been in trouble for several decades now. Indeed, despite their countless qualities, elephants are poached for the ivory of their tusks. Because the number of elephants are declining at an alarming rate due to poaching, some actions have been engaged to preserve them, but a controversy persists between the Southern countries and the Eastern countries of Africa over ivory ban. Several reasons explain the declining number of elephants in Africa. The population has grown very fast, so, according to the pressure of the human population, farmers have to kill the elephants for feeding the Africans. Moreover, there is a lot of poverty in Africa and there has been a real opportunity in ivory trade, because rich countries have a demand for ivory products.
