Two examples of endangered species and how they become endangered

..ARCTIC WOLF..

There are two reasons why people are hunting for arctic wolves.
The first reason is because of its pelt (fur). Its pelt is soft and beautiful. People would killed te wolves because the pelt have high demand in the market and it can generate a lot of money.
The second reason is because of the children bedtime stories. The children have been told the stories about "big bad wolf". One of the stories are "Little Red Riding Hood". When they grow up, they will keep in mind that wolves are bad and dangerous animals. so with that in mind, they killed the innocent wolves.
More info about arctic wolf, you may refer here. (http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/arctic-fox/)



..ELEPHANTS..

The reason elephants become endangered is because people are poaching them (illegal hunting). The number of elephants left on earth are 60,000. It seems like there are many elephants left, but if people keep on poaching them, it will lead to their extinction.
In fact, people have been poaching elephants for their ivory and sometimes people just don't have the ideas why they killed the elephants.Besides that,opening new cities and destroying their natural habitat also affect to the number of the elephants.

Check on this website if you're interested to read further about elephants.(http://www.elephants.com/)

For elephants in Malaysia you may refer to this website.(http://www.myelephants.org/efacts.html)