While perusing this AFP piece about a poaching bust in the Central African Republic, we stopped and mumbled “hmmmmm” upon reading this hard-to-swallow stat: Experts say some 38,000 African elephants are killed each year for their tusks. Really? That seems like such a ridiculously high figure; at that clip, wouldn’t the species (or, to be […]
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Counting the Jumbos
October 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags:Africa·animals·Central African Republic·crime·elephants·ivory·wildlife management