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

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

 


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