- Poaching is on the rise — most illegal ivory comes from . . .
Poachers kill elephants for their valuable tusks — a single pound of ivory can sell for $1,500, and tusks can weigh 250 pounds For a long time, conservationists weren’t sure whether illegal
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Six poachers arrested with half a tone of ivory in Lusaka PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MINISTRY OF TOURISM COMMENDS SUCCESSFUL STING OPERATION OF A NOTORIOUS IVORY TRAFFICKER IN LUSAKA Lusaka, Zambia 13th April, 2025 The Ministry of Tourism, through the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW), has apprehended a notorious ivory kingpin and five accomplices in a sting operation
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- Ptolemy II Philadelphus - Wikipedia
The adults were killed for their ivory, the children were captured to be trained as war elephants [ 34 ] [ 35 ] On the east coast of the sea, the key settlements were Berenice (modern Aqaba Eilat ) [ 36 ] and Ampelone (near modern Jeddah )
- Stop elephant hunting in Tanzania borderlands | Science
In 2023–2024, “sport” hunters legally shot and killed five elephants in northern Tanzania The targeted elephants were among the largest, oldest bulls from the cross-border population studied by Kenya’s 51-year Amboseli Elephant Research Project, the longest study of elephants in the world
- Loxodonta Localizer: A Software Tool for Inferring the . . .
Illegal hunting is a major threat to the elephants of Africa, with more elephants killed by poachers than die from natural causes DNA from tusks has been used to infer the source populations for confiscated ivory, relying on nuclear genetic markers However, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences can …
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A 2014 New York Times editorial reported that approximately 30,000 to 35,000 African elephants were killed each year Only a complete ban of the ivory trade can save the African elephant from extinction What is one way that the author shows bias toward the topic? A The author states that "saving elephants had a negative economic impact on
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