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Protecting Cambodian Elephants | Angely Rose | TEDxISPP


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afternoon ladies and gentlemen my name
is Angela rose I left in plumping and
today I’m so happy to be here presenting
my topic protecting Cambodian elephants
first of all I would like to ask you all
a question how many people here have
ever seen an elephant in the wild before
I’m not shocked that not many of you who
haven’t rest your hands because
elephants are endangered animals and
they need appropriate conservation from
us humans in my opinion most people do
not really care about elephants because
many tourists were elephants for fun
without thinking about its freedom or
health why am I really passionate about
this topic well I was born in the
northeast of Cambodia which is pretty
province this province has abundant of a
life and it also borders Vietnam which
is a country that is home to elephant –
there are 200 to 300 wild elephants left
in Cambodia in contrast there are only
76 to 94 wild elephants elephants left
in Vietnam the information that Cambodia
has more elephants to Vietnam especially
to start worrying about those endangered
species who are trying to survive in
Cambodia
I believe that Cambodia is a beautiful
country and in above forests there are
many well animals they are depending on
each other to balance the ecosystem
having healthy ecosystems is really
important to all forms of life each
species plays a necessary role for an
intact system and if one living thing is
taken out of the ecosystem the health of
the entire ecosystem will be affected
l first left and groups culture and
communicate with each other that most of
the pond with a low sound that most of a
point we can hear the
yet here they are herbivores that
consumed several hundred kilograms of
plants delay and the spent most of their
days finding food because the drink 140
liters of water in it 10 percent of
their weight Lily the mostly found in
subtropical and tropical regions of Asia
and Africa why our alpha is important to
Cambodians the significance of this
beautifully large animals can be seen
throughout our history as we can say at
Angkor Wat an exceedingly wonderful
masterpiece built by Cambodian ancestors
there are many sculptures of elephants
the clearly shows that elephants had
always been special animals that were
once only for Kings noblemen and
Holliman in Cambodian culture in
addition incommode was built with the
help of elephants and those elephants
since were too big and heavy stones from
Claremont an all the way to anchor what
all this evidence shows is that
elephants have coexisted with people
since ancient times
most Cambodian kings also used elephants
and urchins rotation and elephants also
used to pair with kings in fighting and
and wars against the other countries
because many Cambodian citizens believed
that elephants are extremely powerful
and brave and most they could help the
with the pink sand armies to win in wars
and fighting against the other countries
elephants are crucial not only a story
Connie
but also in Cambodian religion there’s
one mystery that an amazing tale of
elephant described how people felt about
those elephants and the time in both
Hindu and Buddhist traditions long
reward elephants still hold a meaning
for the followers of these religions
today there was one blurry elephant the
brought peace to the country what
however despite their cultural
significance after a period of modern
development the population of elephants
has dwindled
we’re losing else was right now
many shocking reasons that come from
humans now let’s take a moment to look
at phenomena there is a total of two
million people and many of them have
missis’s the current large spaces to
build factories and huge buildings and
ethnicity expands because of growth of
economy farmers have to move their
houses to till on the edges of the
forest or even cut down trees to have
enough space to live and feed their
family and as their habitat is
decreasing and funds begin destroying
farms just to find food consequently
those farmers who have limited education
limited experience with wildlife and
lack a bond with elephants killed those
elephants just a particular forms traps
and also for their tusks because they’re
extremely rare and valuable forcing
elephants have to work hard in tourism
is also a major problem according to a
source an elephant night because it was
forced to work hard as transportation
for tourists in March in Nala a province
of Vietnam another 40 year old captive
elephants also died due to silver
accession and over working in tourism
industry according to a local news
report another a 36 year old male
elephants also died in January for the
same reason in Angkor Wat there are some
elephants they are ridden by tourists
and sometimes they’re overworked and
even collapsed according to an expert at
elephants health dr. Pimentel words in
an organization at Vietnam said that we
are not forced elephants to work hard
because of our working and cause
elephants to be less healthy not a lot
of energy or even dying do you know how
many countries that are looking another
reasons why the population of elephants
is decreasing is a lot of habitat due to
deforestation while I’m talking about
this now there are many hectares of
forest our bank
all around the world and within Cambodia
according to the United Nations Food and
Agricultural organization Cambodia has
one of the highest rates of never
station all around the world
that’s unbelievable isn’t it Pentagon
logging has threatens forests in
Cambodia elephants are huge animals and
they need large spaces a forest to
breathe stay healthy and live and asthma
as a first station increases and first
begin and France started to lose they’re
extremely important habitat and they
became the most one of the most
endangered species all around the world
and are listed in the red list of the
International Union for Conservation of
Nature do you know how many countries
that are lucky enough to possess those
rare Indian or Asian elephants according
to my research there are only Elvin
countries that are home to they are home
to those indian or asian elephants the
urban countries are in mainland Asia
Bangladesh Bhutan Cambodia China India
laughs the Malay Peninsula Myanmar Nepal
Thailand and Vietnam you may be
wondering what we can do to help those
elephants because humans are part of the
environment the actions of human can
have a strong effect on nature we can
stop watching those in danger
and elephants and for those hunters who
live lahood depending on killing
elephants they can change to work in
agricultural system or the organization
or trying to conserve elephants can also
help them to find a blueberry job in
tourism you can also promise not to ride
elephants because remember that there
are huge animals and they need time to
rest and stay healthy other
organizations and government can also
help to build more sanctuaries for
elephants another creative solution to
to protect elephants is dying elephant
tusks but there might be some problem
with this but do you think do you know
why I think that dying elephant tusks is
a creative solution because one day
people especially in
the only one the white tusks and if we
die all the elephant tusks in two
different colors they will have less
interest in our elephants and they will
let our elephants live peacefully we can
also help to plant more trees in the
forest so they’re larger habitats for
elephants finally the best solution to
help elephants to help out elephants is
acting from our heart instead of for
profit if we love elephants and we want
to keep this and then your elephants an
amount of life we need to share and
spread the understanding and in this
information that we have known out of
the world by telling more people around
us so we can make a big community of
support the more people know the more
hope we have to rescue the rest of our
elephants help from a single person now
can create a hopeful future so start to
protect those 4 elephants now thank you
so much
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