IFAW and
the poachers had a huge conflict on whether the poachers should be able to hunt elephants or not. IFAW thought the poachers
were hunting to many elephants, and they were becoming extinct. The poachers thought that they were just hunting the amount
they needed to make a living, and that they wouldn't make the elephants become extinct.
IFAW, a
rescue group, helped save more than 1,000 elephants, and banned more than 1,200 boxes of ivory. IFAW also used DNA tracking
to find poached ivory.
The poachers sold
ivory because it would sell for a tremendous amount of money. They would be rich after they sold only 5 elephant ivory. The
poachers thought that if they each killed only 5 elephants, the elephants wouldn't become extinct.
Many people that
lived in the area wanted the poachers that were killing elephants to be gone. Others really didn't care because it didn't
affect them.
When IFAW made
a compromise with the government, the poachers didn't like it. One man that used to be a poacher before the Ivory Trade Ban
said that poachers thought of The Ivory Trade Ban as "horrible" because now they can't sell any ivory, and they sold ivory
to make a living. People in the area became relieved because then they didn't have to worry about random searches of ivory.
