The 2006 Zakouma Elephant Massacre With Audio)

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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

Figure 10


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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

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