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Ivory Half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. The huge rise in poaching and ivory smuggling in the new millennium has destroyed the hope that the 1989 ivory trade…
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Half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. The huge rise in poaching and ivory smuggling in the new millennium has destroyed the hope that the 1989 ivory trade ban had capped poaching and would lead to a long-term fall in demand. A similar alarming story can be told of the herds in northern Mozambique and across swathes of central Africa, with forest elephants losing almost two-thirds of their numbers to the tusk trade.
The answer is not simple. But why the new upsurge? Since ancient times, large-scale killing of elephants for their tusks has been driven by demand outside Africa's elephant ranges - from the Egyptian pharaohs through Imperial Rome and industrialising Europe and North America to the new wealthy business class of China.
And, who poaches and why do they do it? In recent years lurid press reports have blamed mass poaching on rebel movements and
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