Poached elephants
estimate for
Jan 2012 to date
33243
Headlines:
- Malawi seizes 781 pieces of ivory
- Go Team Elephant - supporters needed!
- New film: 'The Congo Basin Ivory Trade'
- Elephant tusks in Dubai
- National ivory action plans submitted
- Good news for Central Africa's elephants...
- Poachers invade research centre in World Heritage Site
- A thriving bloody ivory trade
- Over 125,000 Elephants Killed In South Sudan
- Catastrophe continues in central Africa
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Poaching and seizure data is from January 2012 reports to date.
*Elephant population figures for Africa from 'Definite' category of IUCN African Elephant Status Report 2007 and for Asia from Fernando, P. & Pastorini, J. (2011) Range-wide Status of Asian Elephants. Gajah: Journal of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group. Number 35: 14-20.