High ivory consumption makes elephant herds hunting prey. As early as 1976, CITES issued a ban on trade in the Asian elephant, of which only 50,000 remained.
大規模的消費，使得象群成為獵殺對象，早在一九七六年，華盛頓公約會員國就對地球上只剩五萬頭的亞洲象，下了交易禁令。