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| Subject: Good: some countries want to lift the ivory ban Sun Sep 25, 2016 10:20 pm | |
| The number of elephants in Africa has dropped by 111,000 in 10 years to just 415,000 today. The 20 per cent drop between 2006 and 2015 is because of a surge in ivory poaching, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said in a report.
Swiss-based IUCN is regarded as the most authoritative source on wild fauna populations and the report's release at a UN conference on the global wildlife trade will lend a sense of urgency as some countries seek to keep the global ivory trade shut while others want to reopen it.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/african-elephant-population-tumbles-but-some-countries-want-to-lift-the-ivory-ban-20160925-gro8c2.html |
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