Asian Elephants are an endangered species that live in Southeast Asia and India. Poaching for the elephants ivory, lack of agriculture development, deforestation, and the elephant skin trade are the reason for their threat of extinction. There is also an extremely high amount, around two thirds of the Asian elephant population, that is smuggled into the tourist industry. The elephants are trained using cruel methods of fear based training, otherwise knows as abuse, to teach the animals to do tricks or give rides. The Asian Elephant Conservation Fund was founded in 1997 and now works to support projects to limit the amount of human-elephant contact, educate forest rangers and people in the area, increase law enforcement to stop poaching and hunting, and create rapid response teams for incidences involving asian elephants.
Endangered Species 