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The ongoing threat to wild elephants is driven by a persistent demand for ivory, a material that continues to circulate through illegal global markets despite international bans. Elephants are killed for their tusks alone, leaving behind disrupted herds and fractured social structures. As highly intelligent and deeply social animals, elephants rely on complex familial bonds, and the loss of even a single individual can have lasting consequences across generations. Within this project, the issue of poaching is not approached through data alone, but through a recognition of absence—of lives taken, relationships severed, and the quiet unraveling of systems that once held.