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Hippos Are in Trouble. Will an Endangered Listing Save Them? On February 15, World Hippo Day, the Humane Society of the United States, the Humane Society Legislative Fund, the Humane Society International, and the Center for Biological Diversity announced that they planned to sue the U S Fish and Wildlife Service in an attempt to force the agency to consider listing the common hippo under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
DNA From Elephant Dung, Tusks Reveals Poaching Hot Spots Twenty five years since the global ban on ivory trading, African elephants are being poached at species-threatening rates, their tusks headed, via shifting smuggling routes, for voracious markets
The Ivory Game - Wikipedia Poacher Boniface Methew Malyango, nicknamed "The Devil Has No Mercy", who has been connected to 15 poaching gangs across 5 countries, and has poached around 1,000 elephants, and supplied ivory to Yang Fenglan, who was the subject of this documentary, his brothers Lucas Mathayo Malyango and Abdallah Ally Chaoga were arrested on October 29, 2015
African Elephants Evolve Without Tusks to Escape Ivory . . . More than 20,000 African elephants are illegally killed every year for their ivory tusks, leaving behind the animals’ carcasses in their wake But ivory hunting can impact more than just elephant numbers– a recent study found that previous overhunting has led to the increase of naturally tuskless elephants in Mozambique During the
Borneo Pygmy Elephant — Global Conservation Borneo pygmy elephants are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, hunting and poaching, and reduced genetic diversity due to their small population size As with all elephant species, the demand for ivory has been an ever-increasing threat Elephants across Africa and Asia have declined as poachers kill them for their tusks
Zero elephants poached in a year in top Africa wildlife park A year ago, he estimated that fewer than 2,000 elephants remained in Niassa, though he now says preliminary analysis of data from a survey conducted in October and not yet published indicated that