100,000 African elephants slaughtered by poachers in just 3 years, study says
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - 07:30
in Biology & Nature
Poachers killed an estimated 100,000 elephants across Africa between 2010 and 2012, a huge spike in the continent's death rate of the world's largest mammals because of an increased demand for ivory in China and other Asian nations, a new study says.