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elephants

forest elephants

Environment

African elephant poaching is falling at last - but it's still too high

The number of African elephants being killed by poachers has fallen to below 15,000 per year, which is still too high for populations to have a future

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How primates and elephants prevent climate change

How primates and elephants prevent climate change

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Zambia to kill 2000 hippos because they might spread anthrax

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Zambia to kill 2000 hippos because they might spread anthrax

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Africa’s giraffes are being slaughtered by Joseph Kony's army

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Africa’s giraffes are being slaughtered by Joseph Kony's army

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Japan’s refusal to stop ivory trade undermines bans elsewhere

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Japan’s refusal to stop ivory trade undermines bans elsewhere

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An elephant's trunk

Life

The trunk trick that lets elephants pick up almost anything

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Carved elephant tusk

Life

China's ivory ban is great, now for shark fins and tiger bone

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Wildlife numbers more than halve since 1970s in mass extinction

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Wildlife numbers more than halve since 1970s in mass extinction

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Elephant prints in boggy ground

Life

Elephants' footprints leave behind tiny oases for aquatic life

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Slow-to-breed elephant hurtles towards extinction

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Slow-to-breed elephant hurtles towards extinction

The African forest elephant doesn’t begin having offspring until its mid-20s – which makes population recovery a mammoth problem, even if poaching can be halted

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Life

Record ivory burning shows world is failing Africa's elephants

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Life

Bald ibis among wildlife driven to extinction in Syria and Libya

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Last Word

Upright snooze

Regulars

Technology

Infrasound radar listens for elephant rumbles to warn villagers

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