Answer:
Any species of organism (plants or animals)at the verge of extinction due to rapid reduction in population is said to an endagered species.
Habitat loss due to industrialization, farming, mining activities resulted in massive deforestation, and therefore loss of feeds( green plants) for elephants to live on.Besides the deforestation has narrowed the vegetation gaps between man, his abode and elephants.
As a result , elepahnts in attempt to feed encroach into human farmland to survive. Men (famers) in their selfish interest killed elephants to protect their farm crops and lives of their family They poach them to reduce their population to avoid repeated encroachments. This lead to rapid reduction in population,
Due to high value of teeth of elephants, they are been repeatedly hunted down, poached, to sell them as ivory for ornamental and medicinal purposes. The most unfortunate fact is that men killed elepahnats irrespective of the ages. This couple with long gestation period of this animal and few offspring produced' further put a strain on the population. making elephant among the animals on endangered list.
The main causes for the elephant to be an endangered animal are habitat loss and the ivory trade.
Renee's speech can be a cause-effect speech because she can first expose causes such as habitat loss and the ivory trade (material from elephant horns) and how this is related to the effect that is the decline in the Elephant population and its threat of "endangered".
Based on the above, the answer is: The main causes for the elephant to be an endangered animal are habitat loss and the ivory trade.
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