The Elephant’s White Gold “We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.” (Graydon Carter) Elephants are extraordinarily intelligent creatures who are mindlessly killed for their tusks to be sold for profit. People want their tusks so badly we have almost drove the African elephant to extinction in the process of meeting the demand for ivory. The overharvest of wildlife for human use in 2014 was the second leader of the decline in global diversity and local distinction of species. Despite the need for investigation into illegal trade of wildlife and its impacts, the
