The Elephants of Africa Home; Life of an Elephant | Tale of the Trunk | The Poaching Problem | Resources ... Between 1979 and 1989, the worldwide demand for ivory caused elephant populations to decline to dangerously low levels. During this time ... Still, elephant poaching remains a problem in some parts of Africa.
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"Since the one-off ivory sales from southern Africa countries late last year, we have noted an unprecedented rise of elephant poaching incidents in Tsavo," Jonathan Kirui, Tsavo National Park's assistant director, said in a statement released Monday.
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Although the international trade in ivory was banned by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1989, the illegal ivory trade and elephant poaching are alive and well.
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A U.S. study shows the negative effects of African elephant poaching persist for decades after the killings. ... You are here: Home / Science News / Elephant poaching: Long negative effects...
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* Poaching as a result of human-elephant conflict is not included unless the tusks were taken. Figures used in this summary include the poaching incidents detailed below. ... Elephant Poaching Reports from 2000...
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Last century: elephant populations massively declined due to the legal and increasingly illegal ivory trade, together with habitat destruction and increased agricultural production. 1979-89: uncontrolled ivory poaching from 1979 to 1989 halved Africa’s elephant population from 1.3 million to 600,000.
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Four hours before the freighter was scheduled to arrive in Singapore, customs officials received a tip; and sure enough, when they examined a container from Malawi, they discovered 532 gleaming elephant tusks. ... The surge in elephant poaching coincides with a revival of talk on legalizing the ivory trade.
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Elephant poaching is on the rise in Central Africa, according to a new study funded by the European Union. ... Poaching has almost cut Congo's elephant population in half, from 50,000 in the 1990s to less than 30,000, according to Dominique Nsoso from the environment ministry.
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JOHANNESBURG, July 8 (Reuters) -Elephant poaching has increased in ; Kenya since three other African states were given the green light to resume ivory exports, a leading conservationist said on Wednesday.
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And according to Patrick Omondi, head of species management at the Kenya Wildlife Service, which runs Kenya's national parks, elephant poaching more than doubled last year.
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