Poaching has been an issue for many years now. All across the world, countries are putting restrictions in to place to try and stop illegal poaching from happening. Poaching has been responsible for many animals becoming endangered and even when there are very few animals of a species left in the wild, this still does not seem to deter people from hunting them.

South Africa in particular has a massive poaching problem. It should come as no surprise that Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve has been added to the Unesco’s danger list because two-thirds of its elephants have been poached in the last five years. Between 2009 and 2013 over 25,000 elephants were killed in Tanzania’s Selous ecosystem, which is sixty six per cent of the reserve’s population.

According to Will Travers of the Born Free Foundation “A single elephant can produce 10kg of ivory with a market value of around $30,000,” he says. It’s no wonder poachers now refer to elephants as walking banks.