If 30,000 to 35,000 big African elephants continue to be slaughtered for their tusks every year, elephants may be at risk of eventual extinction.
If 30,000 to 35,000 big African elephants continue to be slaughtered for their tusks every year, elephants may be at risk of eventual extinction.
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If 30,000 to 35,000 big African elephants continue to be slaughtered for their tusks every year, elephants may be at risk of eventual extinction.
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The rare purse-lipped black rhinoceros (which is actually grey in colour) has already been killed in West Africa. Between it and the wide-lipped white rhinoceros, 1,000 are being slaughtered by poachers each year. Only 25,000 remain.
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Lions are not being poached, but for genetic reasons, about a third of the lions of Africa have disappeared in the past 20 years.
