Extinction: Elephants driven to the brink by poaching - BBC
WEBMar 25, 2021 · African forest elephants are now critically endangered, an update from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reveals. Savanna elephants are also endangered. And...
Elephant poaching: Why it’s a big problem | IFAW
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Poaching endangers individual elephants and the wider species, destabilises entire ecosystems, and poses a significant challenge to global biodiversity efforts. IFAW is an organisation dedicated to conservation and rescue around the world. A core part of our work involves anti-poaching initiatives to protect elephants in …
Stopping Elephant Ivory Demand | Initiatives | WWF - World …
WEBEach year, at least 20,000 African elephants are illegally killed for their tusks. A decade-long resurgence in demand for elephant ivory, particularly in parts of Asia, has fueled this rampant poaching epidemic.
What drives elephant poaching? It’s not greed - National …
WEBJan 31, 2023 · Poaching is a major cause of decline for both endangered savanna elephants and critically endangered forest elephants, whose combined numbers have fallen to about 415,000, according to the...
Elephants have evolved to be tuskless because of ivory poaching, …
WEBOct 22, 2021 · Now researchers have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks.
Reducing poverty and corruption key to saving Africa's elephants
WEBMay 28, 2019 · Elephant poaching is an Africa-wide problem, but solving it requires a local approach. Severin Hauenstein had a hunch. The biologist from Germany's University of Freiburg suspected that there...
The Fight Against Elephant Poachers Is Going Commando
WEBBut nowhere is their predicament worse than in CAR, site of one of the continent’s most notorious animal slaughters: the massacre three years ago of 26 forest elephants by Sudanese ivory hunters...
87 Elephants Killed by Poachers in Africa’s ‘Last Safe Haven’
WEBSep 4, 2018 · At least 87 elephants have been killed for their ivory in Botswana in recent months, according to the conservation nonprofit Elephants Without Borders, which discovered the carcasses.
What causes elephant poaching? - The Economist
WEBJan 11, 2023 · In 2021, according to Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE), a conservation programme, around 40% of elephant deaths were a result of poaching.
African elephants under continued threat of poaching, warns UN …
WEBMay 10, 2019 · Elephant poaching and ivory smuggling levels remain alarmingly high in Africa. An updated assessment by a United Nations Environment Programme-administered treaty has confirmed that poaching...