Africa’s Elephants Under Threat

Conservationists have warned that widespread ivory poaching is wiping out Africa’s elephant herds and that unless governments and international organizations enact harsher penalties the continent could lose an icon.

African elephant in Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

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