Today, due mainly to a ban on ivory trade, the numbers have risen again. But the human population has also grown. Conflicts between elephants and people are on the rise, because the two species compete for the same land. The world s population is bigger than ever. People need to use land to feed themselves.
People also remove large blocks of habitat by deforesting and fencing the land.
Once the land is degraded, wildlife won t come back. The effects are permanent. Eco-terrorists recently blew up seven buildings in Vail, Colorado. There were angry about the expansion of the Vail ski resort into forests where lynx live. Their actions were violent, which I think was the wrong way to react.