We are currently losing an estimated 50,000 African elephants a year to poaching, and there are only about 470,000 elephants remaining in the population. So, that is about a 10th of the population being lost each year, this loss rate must be contained. Stopping (ivory) demand is too slow to do it alone. We urgently need to stop the killing.

Samuel Wasser

Categorized in : Science

Targeting these areas for law enforcement could stop the largest amount of poaching-related mortality in Africa and choke at the major sources of ivory fueling the criminal networks that allow this transnational organized crime to operate.