It is more cost effective for those entities to capture wild elephants and to train them to work than it is to raise them from young and to breed them to be working animals. Many elephants are hunted to capture them to use for work. This is because those villagers needed the food supplies close to them and couldn’t allow the elephants to take them. Sometimes they were hunted by villagers though to get them out of certain areas. They weren’t killed for meat or for any other purpose. In fact, most of the early information about them indicates that they were highly regarded as amazing animals. Many animals have been hunted throughout history as a source of food but that isn’t the case with the elephants. Each one of these animals that is senselessly killed out there brings them one step closer to extinction. While the hunter may get a trophy to mount on their wall, they are also destroying a very valuable part of out environment and our history. Guides make a ton of money taking people from all over the world out there to hunt for them. While in most parts of the world they are protected such safari hunts do take place in Africa. Unfortunately many experienced hunters feel that the ultimate experience for trophy hunting is to go after elephants.
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