Don't underestimate the huge scale of this bloody trade

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It is devastatingly sad to say, but elephants remain in crisis: they are still in danger of being wiped out by poachers. This may shock many who believed that the ivory trade ban 20 years ago had saved them, and it's true that the herds initially started to recover, but now the ban has been chipped away and we face the prospect of elephants being poached to extinction in some African countries such as Sierra Leone. Western nations have the power to stamp out the trade and save this iconic species says Robbie Marsland in The Independent

 

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