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ELEPHANTS FACE EXTINCTION UNLESS IVORY TRADE IS BANNED

 

 THEY MAY DISAPPEAR IN TEN YEARS AT THIS RATE OF POACHING

China needs to act now on the country's illegal ivory trade to stop elephants becoming extinct, according to one conservationist.

 

Joyce Poole, co-director of Elephant Voices, said the creatures had experienced their worst year in history, with more than 7 per cent killed for their tusks in only a year.

 

She called for China to tackle the country's appetite for ivory to save the remaining 400,000 elephants from extinction, and said the species would be extinct within a decade if poaching continued at the current rate.

Read more:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2343137/Elephants-face-extinction-Beijing-does-ban-ivory-trade-China-accounts-nearly-half-40-000-killed-year-tusks.html

 

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