Endangered Elephants

How come Elephants are concidered endangered?

I have always loved African Elephants ever since I was 6 and from then on I was always interested in them and their life.

Elephants used to roam the plains of African and the forests of Asia until poachers started to kill elephants for their ivory in exchange for money!

There´s about 600 000 African elephants, and between 30 000 and 50 000 Asian elephants. (Approximately 20% are in captivity) It´s difficult to estimate their numbers exactly. The Africans dropped by 50%, from 1.3 millions to 600 000, between 1979 and 1989, because of poaching. About 70,000 a year were poached during this time. This all started to slow down in 1989 when the Ivory ban was passed.

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