THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

KALI, RAHUL, AND ARYAN

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

PROBLEM▸ Elephants poached for ivory

▸ Highly endangered - predicted extinction in 25 years

▸ Ecosystems will change

▸ Species dependant on elephants will die

MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE‣ Grassland with seasonal rivers and clumps of acacia trees. ‣ Narok County Council greatly reduced poaching, but long

way to go

ECOSYSTEM WITH ELEPHANTS

IMPORTANCE OF ELEPHANTS

ELEPHANT IMPACT ON ECOSYSTEM

‣ Trample on bushes and eat trees = Grassland

‣ Footprints make waterholes

‣ Dig up rivers

‣ Droppings allow organisms to eat undigested seeds

‣ Dung beetles reproduce in elephant manure

‣ Droppings very rich with nutrients, soil gets fertilised.

ECOSYSTEM WITHOUT ELEPHANTS

ESSENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS

ESSENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS

ESSENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS

POPULATION DECLINE IN SPOTTED HYENA

ESSENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS

ACACIA TREES WITH AND WITHOUT ELEPHANTS

LESS SPECIES =

LESS REVENUE

SOLUTIONS

TENTATIVE SOLUTION: ELEPHANT CAMP

▸ Elephant Camp in Masai aimed for Masai children

▸ Teaches children importance of elephants

▸ Enables the next generation with tools needed to save elephants

TENTATIVE SOLUTION

WHY IT WON’T WORK (YET)

▸ Data to show elephant population rising because of camp isn’t available

SOLUTIONS

SOLUTION: ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE

▸ Takes in elephants in danger

▸ Releases them into a herd after they’ve learned how to be elephants

▸ Data collected shows that elephant populations in Tsavo National Park have risen from this

Proposal to Narok County Council

SOLUTION

DATA

▸David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust have successfully raised and released 150 infant elephants back into herds

▸ 150 elephants that would have died otherwise.

SOLUTION

HOW IT WOULD WORK

▸ Adult Elephants need 37.2 m2 of space.

▸ Masai Mara has 1,510 km2 of land.

▸ To hold 20 alone, injured or infant elephants at any given time, we would need about 800m2 of land.

▸ Rounded up, 1km2 would be better - flexible in amount of land sanctioned off.

▸ Left with about 1,509 km2 of land.

▸ Patrolling Rangers will check elephants

SOLUTION

EXPENSES

▸ No food and water expenses

▸ Medicine: $360 per kg of Chamomile

▸ 1km worth of fence: $23,000

▸ Masai Mara revenue: $19,008,600

▸ 88% being spent on communities

▸ 12% spent on park ($2,281,032)

▸ Take away fence cost, left with $2,238,032.

▸ 1.02% of your money - One Time Investment.

INCREASE IN ELEPHANTS =

INCREASE IN REVENUE

GO TO THIS LINK TO LEARN MORE: ELEPHANTORPHANAGE.WEEBLY.COM

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION

WE HOPE YOU’LL JOIN OUR EFFORTS IN SAVING THE ELEPHANTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

▸ Title Image

▸ Second Slide - Elephant

▸ Masai Mara Game Reserve Image

▸ Cattle egret Image

▸ Cattle egret around the world Image

▸ Hyena Image

▸ Hyena Graph

▸ Acacia tree Image

▸ Acacia Tree Diagram: Made on google drawing

▸ Elephant Orphanage image