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

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