We can not blame all of the issues regarding our elephants on climate change alone. In fact, humans continue to negatively impact elephants in multiple ways apart from climate change:
-ivory trade (although this issue is mostly of the past, recent discoveries have found illegal markets still existing in Africa)
-poaching
-habitat destruction/loss due to expanding human populations
-habitats being replaced by agriculture
-ancient migratory routes for the elephants are cut off by human settlement, thus restricting their transportation and location opportunities
-killed for meat & hides
-fragmentation
-illegal hunting
-shrinking forests
-human-elephant contact
Climate change has the potential to influence conflicts between humans and elephant habitats. Typically, the increase in these confrontations will most likely result in deaths from both sides.
-ivory trade (although this issue is mostly of the past, recent discoveries have found illegal markets still existing in Africa)
-poaching
-habitat destruction/loss due to expanding human populations
-habitats being replaced by agriculture
-ancient migratory routes for the elephants are cut off by human settlement, thus restricting their transportation and location opportunities
-killed for meat & hides
-fragmentation
-illegal hunting
-shrinking forests
-human-elephant contact
Climate change has the potential to influence conflicts between humans and elephant habitats. Typically, the increase in these confrontations will most likely result in deaths from both sides.
HOW YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO REDUCE HUMAN-ELEPHANT CONFRONTATIONS:
-do not buy ivory products
-use & support sustainable palm oil
-adopt and elephant
-make donations
-spread the word!
-do not buy ivory products
-use & support sustainable palm oil
-adopt and elephant
-make donations
-spread the word!