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Preservation of African Elephants, fake tusks
Hello.
If the biggest threat to African elephants is poachers hunting them for Ivory, then why not tranquilize wild elephants and replace their tusks?
It may sound drastic, but if one could cut off most of the tusks, and replace them with artificial tusks from a material of equivalent weight, strength and durability, but with a color that clearly indicates to a poacher that the tusks are fake.
This would keep the tusks' functionality to the elephants and make them less attractive to poachers. If this is practically viable, it would be a good temporary solution until one is able to control the illegal hunt in Africa.
To far out?
Marius
Norway
If the biggest threat to African elephants is poachers hunting them for Ivory, then why not tranquilize wild elephants and replace their tusks?
It may sound drastic, but if one could cut off most of the tusks, and replace them with artificial tusks from a material of equivalent weight, strength and durability, but with a color that clearly indicates to a poacher that the tusks are fake.
This would keep the tusks' functionality to the elephants and make them less attractive to poachers. If this is practically viable, it would be a good temporary solution until one is able to control the illegal hunt in Africa.
To far out?
Marius
Norway
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Inappropriate?Hi Marius
I am no expert in the field so I can't comment on whether the "fake" tusks would be useful to the elephant but aside from that I am sure that the logistics and costs involved in doing this to every elephant in Africa (present and future) would make it virtually impossible.
So different ideas are required. Have you gone to the TRAFFIC site to see what the experts are doing in this area?
www.traffic.org
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