Tanzania Has Lost 60 Percent Of Its Elephants To Poachers In 5 Years

Huffington Post
Tanzania Has Lost 60 Percent Of Its Elephants To Poachers In 5 Years
Huffington Post
85,181. That number represents -- sorry, represented -- nearly 60 percent of Tanzania's elephant population. But over the past five years, more than 80,000 of the country's elephants have been slaughtered for their ivory in yet another sign humanity could ...
Decline of Elephants in Tanzania Is Catastrophic, Activists SayU.S. News & World Report
Decline of Tanzanian elephants due to poaching is...

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10 years ago

The Sun Daily

26 May

Poachers kill half Mozambique's elephants in 5 years

The Sun Daily
Poachers kill half Mozambique's elephants in 5 years
The Sun Daily
A file photo taken on Aug 21, 2009 shows an elephant eating at the Tsavo West National Park in southern Kenya. Poachers have killed nearly half of Mozambique's elephants for their ivory in the past five years, the US based Wildlife Conservation Society said ...
'Nearly half' of Mozambique's elephants killed in five yearsBBC News
Poachers decimate Mozambique elephant populationDaily Mail
Poachers killed half...

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

27 Oct

Tanzania: 10000 Elephants Killed Annually By Poachers

Tanzania: 10000 Elephants Killed Annually By Poachers
AllAfrica.com
Tanzania last week reiterated its call to the international community to ban trade on ivory and rhino products in order to counter the escalating poaching of the critically endangered animals. The leading markets of the animal trophies, notably China, Japan, the ...

 

10 years ago

WND.Com

23 Jul

60% of Tanzania's elephants disappeared in 5 years

WND.com
60% of Tanzania's elephants disappeared in 5 years
WND.com
(National Geographic) The East African nation of Tanzania has been the main source of illegal ivory from savanna elephants for nearly a decade, according to a new DNA study of tusks from confiscated ivory shipments. The country's elephant population ...

 

10 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: With the elephants orphaned by poachers

One World Elephant day, the BBC is told how poaching could see the end of elephants in the wild by 2030.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

06 Jan

Poachers kill six elephants in Uganda Queen Elizabeth park

Six elephants were killed by poachers in Queen Elizabeth National Park in September, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has said, describing it as a setback in efforts to conserve the animals that are facing extinction.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

27 Jul

12,000 ‘lost’ jumbos felled by poachers, claims UK paper

Arusha.The 12,000 elephants which were reported to have disappeared mysteriously from the Ruaha-Rungwa ecosystem may have been killed by poachers and their carcasses picked clean before they were discovered, according to conservation experts.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

04 Jun

Search mulled for 'lost'elephants

Fox News
Search mulled for 'lost'elephants
Daily News
NATURAL Resources and Tourism Ministry envisages embarking on an extensive search on elephants reported to have mysteriously disappeared in Southern Tanzania. The sudden vanishing of over 12,000 elephants from the game circuit without traces of ...
A new census reveals the poaching crisis in Africa is worse than we thoughtQuartz
Sharp decline of elephants in Tanzania is direct result of poachingFirstpost
Elephants' decline in Tanzania...

 

11 years ago

Times LIVE

09 May

Poaching could wipe out Tanzanian elephants in 7 years

Phys.Org
Poaching could wipe out Tanzanian elephants in 7 years
Times LIVE
Poachers are slaughtering Tanzania's elephants for their ivory at such alarming rates that the population could be completely wiped out in just seven years, conservationists told a conference Friday. Obama renews solar bid despite setbacks · Scientists hope ...
'30 elephants killed every day in Tanzania'News24
Poaching could wipe out Tanzanian elephants in 7 years: ConservationistsSBS

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11 years ago

The New Indian Express

09 May

Poaching Could Wipe Out Tanzanian Elephants in 7 Years: Group

Capital FM Kenya
Poaching Could Wipe Out Tanzanian Elephants in 7 Years: Group
The New Indian Express
Poachers are slaughtering Tanzania's elephants for their ivory at such alarming rates that the population could be completely wiped out in just seven years, conservationists told a conference Friday. The two-day UN-backed conference which opened today ...
World in Brief: 09/05/14Morning Star Online
Poaching could wipe out Tanzanian elephants in 7 yearsTimes LIVE

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