There have been many elephants that have been found murdered in Linyanti Swamp, Botswana. Mike Chase who is an elephant ecologist stated, 'I don't think anybody in the world has seen the number of dead elephants that I've seen over the last two years." Elephants are being killed for their ivory and left on the banks of rivers.

Mike Chaney had just discovered an elephant whose face had been hacked off by poachers in Botswana. The elephant was in his prime years, between the age of forty and fifty. Chaney discovered more than twenty elephants in one area of Botswana.

Starting in 2013, more than 35,000 elephants across Africa were killed for their ivory. People are carving ornaments, jewelry and other gift items out of the ivory. A major importer of ivory is China because it is valued as a luxury good. People have came to realize that if they do not stop killing the elephants, then they will no longer exist by 2020.

A ranger in Africa for more than two decades, Rory Young, has dealt with a poaching problem. Young says that it would be hard to find out where to start because elephant poaching has become severe in many places. Young is one of the founders of Chengeta Wildlife, which is an organization that works to train wildlife protection teams. The organization now travels across Africa training aspiring rangers and trying to work with governments to adopt anti-poaching campaigns.

If poaching for elephants is not ended soon then elephants will no longer exist. Should people's needs be put above our wildlife? The answer is no. How can we take the lives of innocent animals to benefit us? Without wildlife the world would not exist like it should. As humans we should try to find other outlets for getting what we want out of ivory. Instead of hurting elephants we should get ornaments and other materials made out of another substance.