INFORMATION
Their diet consists of grass, but also branches, leaves,
fruits, buds and tubers. Elephants have bad digestive
systems so they must spend most of their time searching
for food and eating. Elephant ivory was once used as a
source of all kinds of ornaments.
In 1989 international laws against "ivory-trading" were
created to help declining elephant populations recover.
Another problem is the overdevelopment of the areas inhabited
by African elephants. Elephants have to constantly migrate
in the search for food. If they meet human settlements,
conflicts will surely arise, because they destroy fields
while searching for food. This conflict has become the
most important Elephant issue in recent years.
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