Threats

Asian elephants face a myriad of threats, which causes their numbers to dwindle in various parts of Southeast Asia.

Courtesy of Google Images (labeled for noncommercial reuse)

Courtesy of Google Images (labeled for noncommercial reuse)

In this segment of the blog, these are the few pointers that I will be talking about:

    1. Deliberate Killing
    2. Domestication
    3. Human-elephant conflict
    4. Space Restriction

As both elephantourism and elephant poaching are considered the top 2 reasons for the decrease in number of elephants, I will elaborate more about them in separate tabs!

 

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