Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
Recently killed elephants are fueling the ivory trade
By Virginia Morrell | Science Magazine The illegal trade in elephant ivory is being fueled almost entirely by recently killed African elephants, not by tusks leaked from old government stockpiles, as had long been suspected. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which relies on nuclear bomb tests carried out in the 1950s and ’60s to…
Read More‘Our living dinosaurs’ There are far fewer African elephants than we thought, study shows
By David McKenzie and Ingrid Formanek | CNN | August 31, 2016 Linyanti Swamp, Botswana (CNN)Scanning Botswana’s remote Linyanti swamp from the low flying chopper, elephant ecologist Mike Chase can’t hide the anxiety and dread as he sees what he has seen too many times before. “I don’t think anybody in the world has seen the number of…
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