Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Demand for ivory fuels dramatic surge in elephant poaching

100,000 elephant have been illegally poached in the past three years, a rate that could lead to extinction, says a new study published Monday. Photo by flickr user Matt Biddulph As global demand for black-market ivory soars, the number of elephants killed for their tusks has reached unsustainable new heights, according to a new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

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