Stopping Elephant Ivory Demand | Initiatives | WWF
A decade-long resurgence in demand for elephant ivory, particularly in parts of Asia, has fueled this rampant poaching epidemic. The elephant ivory trade not only threatens the very survival …
What drives elephant poaching? It’s not greed - National …
2023年1月31日 · Fewer elephants were poached in areas where communities were healthier and wealthier, a study on thousands of killings in 30 African countries found. Elephant poaching is …
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 …
Elephant poaching: Why it’s a big problem - IFAW
2024年9月13日 · Elephants, known for their intelligence, size, and distinct appearance, face a major threat from poaching—an illegal practice driven by the demand for ivory and other …
Fighting to end the Elephant Ivory Trade - WWF
2021年5月19日 · One of the key threats to the majestic African elephant is poaching. Fuelled by the ivory trade, around 15,000 animals are killed each year for their tusks - that's an average …
New research discovers longer-term effects on elephants from poaching
2021年9月16日 · Poaching has longer-term effects on elephant populations than originally thought, according to a pair of studies published recently by researchers at Colorado State …
African elephant poaching rates correlate with local poverty ... - Nature
2019年5月28日 · The evidence for an increase in African elephant (Loxodonta africana) poaching since the early 2000s is compelling: seizures of illegal ivory shipments have been rising 4, …
What causes elephant poaching? - The Economist
2023年1月11日 · Since 2006 African elephant populations have declined by around 30%. In 2021, according to Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE), a conservation programme, …
2015年7月1日 · Abstract: Poaching has devastated forest elephant populations (Loxodonta cyclotis), and their habitat is dramatically changing. The long-term effects of poaching and …
Elephants have evolved to be tuskless because of ivory poaching ... - 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. …