Economics of Elephant Deaths
The history is linked with greed economics and cruelty going hand in hand. For some reasons I feel the evolution of the human race was too quick for us to handle. The underdeveloped evolutionary traits that we humans exhibit in the modern day age and era are chilling to the spine. We still have the reflexes and ideas and ideals of our caveman ancestors held. Though it was a different time age and era, our actions as one of the smartest animal are now more in dispute than ever.

We have created the best means of creating saline water for drinking water, but we haven’t figured out the waste management of the residual. We have the most sophisticated antibiotics and vaccines produced in the history, and yet the factories which manufacture it do not understand the harm their waste causes the environment.

Today on the 5th of September 2018, I read the most heart-wrenching news. It made me cry in tears for straight up 15 minutes. 90 elephants were killed in Botswana, and the poachers murdered them for ivory. It was coined by most of the news media outlets as the worst massacre in the history of Africa. We are moving from one horrific news to another. From poaching of Rhino horns to ivory.
Anthropologists and archaeologists unanimously agree that Africa is the motherland of all the modern humans living on this planet. And Yet, we consider it the place to dump our charitable activities.
The Gulf News
https://gulfnews.com/news/africa/nearly-100-elephants-killed-for-ivory-in-botswana-1.2274619
The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/04/its-open-season-for-poachers-nearly-90-elephants-killed-for-tusks-near-botswana-wildlife-sanctuary/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ca3bca799410
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/04/ninety-elephant-carcasses-found-in-botswana-with-tusks-and-trunks-chopped
Importance of Economics in the death of Elephants
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the traditional crafts from African, Indian and European tribes influenced the aristocrats of Europe to purchase Ivory as a status symbol and as we murdered aimlessly for cue balls, piano keys and more. Luckily for the elephants between 1869 to 1907 there were a series of inventions which helped them survive the peak ivory demand . The replacement material was coined Bakelite named after the inventor.
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-pool-balls-are-made-of-368742
As colonization ended so there was a steady decline in the demand of Ivory, it helped not only the elephants but the also tourism industries in various nations. But there was a steady rise of a Red Dragon in the Far East. The people had a particular belief system in their culture. And there was a rise in the backdoor economy flourishing on the dark pages of the internet. The myths caught on with the people and the belief in the local shaman fuelled fire to belief in magical abilities of Ivory.
It was too late but at last China took its responsibility in late 2017 by banning all forms of Ivory. This ban was a step in the right direction, but there are holes as big as an Elephant in the system. The neighbouring nations are of not much of help here. Vietnam is another culprit in all of the trade, the Asiatic elephants are facing the consequence so are the elephants in the motherland.

The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/21/vietnam-ivory-trade-asian-elephants
DW News
https://www.dw.com/en/vietnamese-government-cracks-down-on-ivory-trade-ahead-of-global-conference/a-36369801
We did not understand what charity was doing to the people of this vibrant continent. We did not follow the laws governing tribes, and we did not try to figure out what the people wanted. We thought charity was the best thing we did for Africa.
Observe Understand Implement and Map the Impact and Observe again.
Cry of a Mother
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/elephants-mourning-video-animal-grief/