Stopping Elephant Ivory Demand | Initiatives | WWF
Each 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 …
Extinction: Elephants driven to the brink by poaching - BBC
2021年3月25日 · African forest elephants are now critically endangered, an update from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reveals. Savanna elephants are …
What drives elephant poaching? It’s not greed
2023年1月31日 · Fewer elephants were poached where humans were healthier and wealthier, according to researchers from Oxford University, the UN, the University of Cape Town, and …
Elephant poaching: Why it’s a big problem | IFAW
2024年9月13日 · We’re exploring what poaching is, why elephants are targeted, and what IFAW is doing to help protect elephants from poachers and wildlife cybercrime.
Where humans suffer, so do elephants - National Geographic
2019年5月28日 · New data show that boosting law enforcement alone won’t be enough to save them. Reducing poverty is also essential to protecting Earth’s largest land mammal. Elephant …
Elephants have evolved to be tuskless because of ivory ... - NPR
2021年10月22日 · 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.
Is elephant poaching really declining? - National Geographic
2020年6月25日 · Even though the international trade in ivory has been banned since 1990, some 30,000 African elephants are still killed by poachers each year, out of a continent-wide …