Study confirms 60 percent loss of forest elephants in Africa

Monday, March 4, 2013 - 17:00 in Biology & Nature

African forest elephants are being poached out of existence. A study just published in the online journal PLOS ONE shows that across their range in central Africa, a staggering 62 percent of all forest elephants have been killed for their ivory over the past decade.

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