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Figure 1
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Environmental Importance of African Elephants - Assumptions
Promote suitableenvironments for otherspecies
Trees rely on them fordistribution andgermination
Provide water holes Create firebreaks in
grassland areasFigure 2
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Elephants in Chad
300,000 elephants in1970; 10,000 in 2006
Population dropped from3885 to nearly 3000 inless than a year (2005-2006)
Most elephants killed onunprotected ZakoumaPark borders
Figure 3
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Conflict: The Massacre
100 elephant carcasses found in one week in 2006All carcasses on the border of Zakouma National Park
Poaching at its most extremeElephants brutally killed and dismemberedMichael Fay spearheaded movement to stop massacre
Armed poachers at bordersPoachers shot at Fay as he did fly-bys
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Figure 4 Figure 5
Figure 6Figure 7
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VERBAL IMAGERY
THE BAD: Piles and piles ofelephant carcasses
Elephants foundbeheaded and mutilated
Poachers seen onhorseback with AK47s
THE GOOD: Airplane fly-bys over
park borders Mutilated images sent to
press Cover story in National
Geographic magazineseen by many
Verbal Imagery
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Characters: Michael Fay and Team
Fay noticed extremeamounts of carcasses inZakouma
National Geographic andFay surveyed area in 2006
Tip of the iceberg Spotted poaching groups Fay relayed information
and surveys to reporters Allegiance to protection
of endangered animals
Michael Fay,
conservationist
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-MICHAEL FAY TO REPORTERS IN 2006
We hadnt been in the air morethan two hours when we saw our
first carcass the animals facehad been chopped off
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Poachers spotted at five camp sites Had automatic weapons (AK47s) Road horseback Feared no consequences Shot at Fay during investigation Allegiance to black market ivory trade
Characters: The Poachers
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Foreshadowing the Future
-Poachers attacks on Fayshow violence he was up
against
-Poachers were horsemenwith automatic weapons
-Amount of carcassesnecessitate intervention
-Foreshadowed a grim futureof ongoing ivory trade Figure 9
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Foreshadowing the Future, cont.
Fays findings promote Chadian government to help Fays reports in Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma
spread the word Other organizations stepped in to help
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Pertinence to Social Change
Raised public awareness Enacted airplane
surveillance
Chadian government betterprotects park borders
Chad continues to deter Activists and organizations
joined in the fight
From top, left to right: Figures 11, 12, 13, 14
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| Image Sources |Figure 1 - http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/03/elephant-emergency-in-chad-please-help-us-stop-the-killing-via-ifaw/Figure 2 - http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2009/03/13/elephant_survey_day_four/Figure 3 - http://www.mapsofworld.com/africa/Figure 4 - http://www.elephantconservation.org/northern-rangelands-trust-report-2010/
Figure 5 - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/photogalleries/elephants-massacre/photo4.htmlFigure 6 - http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/hwange-elephants.html#crFigure 7 - http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/elephant-ivory-sale-denied-by-cites.htmlFigure 8 - http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2009/03/09/africa_elephant_survey/Figure 9 - http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2013/04/27/chad-battles-poachers-in-war-to-save-elephantsFigure 10 - http://mediastorm.com/publication/ivory-wars-last-stand-in-zakoumaFigure 11 - http://shiftjh.org/coalitionwild-launch-us-shift-2014/
Figure 12 - http://www.yucommentator.org/2013/04/what-happened-to-national-geographic/Figure 13 - http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/content/disney-worldwide-conservation-fundFigure 14 - http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/pictures-first-p-8a-poseidon-delivered-to-patuxent-340549/Figure 15 - http://gifts.worldwildlife.org/gift-center/gifts/Species-Adoptions/African-Elephant.aspx