More than 30,000 elephants are killed every year illegally. The ivory from their tusks is used to make jewelry and other stuff then sold for a lot of money. China is the world’s largest market for ivory. Not too long ago the country stated that they would stop the sale of ivory. There used to be about 3.5 million elephants in Africa and now there’s only about 500,00 left. Elephants could go extinct if we don’t stop poaching and the sale of ivory. Although ivory trade was banned internationally in 1989 countries like the United States and Europe still allow it so poachers still hunt elephants and sell their ivory. Over the years China, the United States, and other countries have started to destroy the ivory to prove that they want to end the
