Ivory poaching at critical levels: Elephants on path to extinction by 2020?
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 15:14
in Biology & Nature
African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989. But the public outcry that resulted in that ban is absent today, and a University of Washington conservation biologist contends it is because the public seems to be unaware of the giant mammals' plight.