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Will Elephants Still Roam Earth In 20 Years?

Will Elephants Still Roam Earth In 20 Years?
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Green Editor, The Huffington Post

At the start of the 1980s there were over a million elephants, during that decade 600,000 were destroyed for ivory products. Today perhaps no more than 400,000 remain across Africa, according to Samuel Wasser of the University of Washington, who is widely recognized as an authority on the subject. It is a tragedy beyond reckoning and humanity needs to pay attention to the plight of the elephants before it is too late.

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