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Elephants Poaching Issues

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

 

  • In the 1910’s, the US alone was importing and consuming 200 tons of ivory every year.

  • In 1913, there were an estimated 10 million African Elephants.

  • By 1979, there were 1 million.

  • In 1989, that number fell to 600,000.

  • After the CITES ban, numbers rebounded to ~1 million.

  • The 1999 and 2008 sanctioned ivory trades with Eastern Asia decimated the population.

  • As of 2013, there was a definite population of 434,000 African Elephants.

  • Since then, the killing has continued and nothing has changed…

 

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