Africa: Time Running Out to Save Elephants From Ivory Trade

19 February 2013

The new wave of killing of elephants in Africa is in many ways far graver than the crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Firstly there are fewer elephants, and secondly the demand for ivory is far higher.

Record ivory prices in the Far East are fuelling poachers, organised crime and political instability right across the African elephant range. And the situation shows no sign of calming.

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