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Elephants are in . Hunters kill them for their tusks. The sell the ivory from the tusks. The USA wants to stop this. It wants to elephants. On Thursday, the U.S. government 6,000 kilograms of ivory. This included carvings and . The USA wants to tell (people who illegally kill elephants) to stop killing elephants. Many elephants in Africa are . It is difficult to stop the poachers. The USA will give a $1 million to anyone with about a in Laos that buys and sells ivory.

Conservationists (people who want to protect animals and the ) are with the USA. They say poaching will stop if it is unprofitable. If poachers cannot money, they will not kill elephants. The Born Free USA group said: "Any time we can ivory from the , it’s a win for elephants…If there's no in selling ivory, there's no profitability in poaching elephants." A worldwide on trading ivory started in 1989. It has protected elephants, but the needs to do much, much .

 


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