Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Poachers Are Killing 40,000 Elephants A Year

Researchers have quantified the contribution of poaching to elephant decline for the first time, and they found that illegal killing is enough to endanger the survival of the species. Across the African continent, poachers have driven an average reduction of 2 to 3 percent a year between 2010 and 2012 - that’s 100,000 elephants in just three years! 
 
Photo credit: Changila, a male elephant, before being poached outside Samburu National Reserve Kenya / David Daballen 
The first paragraph is from the article. The article is linked below.
 

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