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Ivory poachers killing elephants faster than they are being born - Al Jazeera.
Study says tipping point reached as poachers kill 7 percent of African elephants annually; birth rate is 5 percent

The Race to Stop Africa’s Elephant Poachers.
The African Ivory Surge
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In the 1910’s, the US alone was importing and consuming 200 tons of ivory every year.
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In 1913, there were an estimated 10 million African Elephants.
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By 1979, there were 1 million.
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In 1989, that number fell to 600,000.
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After the CITES ban, numbers rebounded to ~1 million.
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The 1999 and 2008 sanctioned ivory trades with Eastern Asia decimated the population.
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As of 2013, there was a definite population of 434,000 African Elephants.
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Since then, the killing has continued and nothing has changed…
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