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Elephants are in . Hunters kill them for their tusks. The sell the tusks because they are from ivory. The USA is working to stop this trade. It wants to the world's elephants. On Thursday, the U.S. government almost 6,000 kilograms of ivory tusks. They also destroyed ivory carvings and . The USA wants to send a to poachers (people who illegally hunt and kill elephants) to stop killing elephants. More and more elephants in Africa are dying. It is difficult for African countries to stop the . On Wednesday the USA offered a $1 million for anyone who has about a group in Laos that buys and sells ivory.

Conservationists (people who want to protect animals and the Earth) are with the USA's actions. They say one way to end poaching is to make it . If poachers know they cannot money from ivory, they will not kill elephants. Adam Roberts of the Born Free USA group said: "Any time we can ivory from the , it’s a win for elephants, because it suggests to the world that there isn't profitability to be had by selling ivory. And if there's no profitability in selling ivory, there's no profitability poaching elephants." A worldwide on trading ivory started in 1989. It has to protect elephants, but the world needs to do a lot .

 


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