What would the consequences be if the Asian Elephant went extinct?

Answer 1

People hunt elephants for their ivory tusks, even though it is illegal. After killing the adult, men saw off the ivory to sell on the black market. I heard that their country is planning to cut off ivory tusks in a governmentally controlled program, in an effort to discourage the senseless hunting. I believe I heard that 3,000 elephants are killed every year. Hunters even leave babies abandoned near the dead mother's carcass.

Answer 2

The extinction of the Asian Elephant would disrupt ecosystems where they play a key role in seed dispersal and habitat maintenance. It would also impact local economies dependent on ecotourism. Additionally, it would signify a loss of cultural and historical significance, as the animal holds symbolic value in many Asian cultures.

Answer 3

There would be no one standing in massive piles of elephant excrement, but it would teach us humans to not take things for granted like ivory and learn to respect the "food chain" and the cycle of life would just go on whether or not elephants go extinct!

Besides, if they do become extinct, the people who depend on elephants for transportation and/or complex things or activities, they need to begin learning to use the industry-standard dependencies we take for granted, vehicles and construction machines, that and learn to speak English in America!

Answer 4

The answer to your question is if the Asian elephant went extinct it would mess up the whole Eco system because each animal has it's part to the Eco system if one part is missing then that would cause a big problem

Answer 5

Elephants are a keystone species meaning that their habitat is dependent on them as are the lives of every creature in their territory. In fact, elephants have a dramatic impact on the weather.

Scientific studies have shown that, in places where elephants have been eliminated, drought has ensued and the land has turned to desert. Other animal populations have disappeared. And uncontrolled fires ravage the land.

If elephants were to go extinct, many other animal species would go extinct, too, because they depend on elephants for survival. A chain reaction would be set in place that would devastate the world over. This is not an overstatement.

Dung beetles, an important part of the food chain, subsist solely on elephant excrement. Dung beetles, on the other hand, are critical to the diet of many other creatures. Other large herbivores rely on the elephant to find water because elephants are able to not only smell and locate underground water, but they can smell water over large distances. They dig down into the earth and free water, so that when they're done, other animals can move in and drink.

Elephants keep grasses, bushes, and trees pruned and trimmed resulting in healthier vegetation. Elephants are nomadic and migrate routinely through the year allowing the land to regenerate and preventing dense vegetative growth from soaking up all the water.

Seeds and other plant reproductive part are passed into the land from elephant manure as another way of replenishing the earth.

This is an accurate, but incomplete and simplistic look at the role elephants play and what their loss would mean to the world. Their extinction would be a worldwide catastrophe, possibly resulting in the extinction of mankind. At a very minimum, it would drastically change the world as we know it and alter our way of life.

Answer 6

There would never be any more elephants in the world.

Answer 7

You will never see them again