Tanzania elephant population declined by 60% in five years, census reveals
Karl Mathiesen
Government data shows industrial scale of poaching for ivory as number of elephants in Tanzania drops from 109,051 in 2009 to 43,330 in 2014.
Tanzania has emerged as the epicentre of Africa’s elephant poaching crisis after a government census revealed it had lost a “catastrophic” 60% of its elephants in just five years …
The Guardian – Tuesday 2 June 2015 15.20 BST
www.theguardian.com/environmen…
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