demand for ivory

Conservation scientists are calling for emergency measures to save elephants, when 62% of African elephants have lost in the last decade.

Southeast Asia is one of the countries that consistently failed to deal with the widespread trade in ivory, despite CITES regulations prohibiting trade in ivory.

Poachers have killed more than 11,000 elephants at Gabon, once considered an African elephant elephant paradise, to get ivory from 2004 to present.