The siege is getting worse. African elephants are being killed at a greater rate than at any time since the worldwide ban on the ivory trade was adopted in 1989. Every 15 minutes, on average, an ...

THE JAPAN EXPERIMENT In 1989, after ten years during which at least one elephant died every ten minutes, President George ... the tusks off a bull elephant killed illegally in Kenya’s Amboseli ...

Period. The latest worldwide report shows that one African elephant is killed every 15 minutes, sacrificed at the altar of an increasingly sophisticated, ruthless and illegal trade in ivory.

It is estimated that around 100 elephants are killed in Africa every day for their tusks. The ivory trade is the biggest cause of elephant poaching there and elephant numbers have been decimated ...

Then she heard an elephant's trumpeting roar. She said she was about to alert him, but "within minutes ... while a human was killed every two days. BBC/ Anbarasan Ethirajan Ms Malkandi is still ...

After just 15 minutes a large animal stepped ... especially among elephant poachers in Tsavo East, where at least half the elephants killed are felled by poisoned arrows—possibly as many as ...

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) estimates that 96 elephants are killed each day in Africa, translating into one elephant death every 15 minutes and a 76% population decline since 2002. The ...

Gaza: As Israel continues its bombardment on the Gaza Strip, Save the Children, an international NGO has stated that over 1,000 children have been killed ... in Gaza every 15 minutes.

The illegal wildlife trade is a huge international organised crime – the fourth biggest illegal trade in the world, worth over an estimated £15 billion ... the elephant poaching crisis, with around 55 ...

On average, a child is killed in the besieged enclave every 15 minutes, Adele Khodr, the UN children's agency's regional director for Middle East and North Africa, said in an interview.

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The illegal wildlife trade is a huge international organised crime – the fourth biggest illegal trade in the world, worth over an estimated £15 billion ... the elephant poaching crisis, with around 55 ...