The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced February 6 that a national park, once home to Africa's largest forest elephant population, has lost a staggering 11,100 individuals due to poaching for the ivory trade. In Gabon's Minkebe Park, which holds about 40,000 elephant, have revealed in recent surveys in areas of the park revealed that two thirds of its elephant population have vanished since 2004, with a majority of these losses have probably taken place in the previous five years. Many environmental agencies are worried about the depleting elephant populations due to poaching because they fear in a few years there won't be any elephants left.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130206141539.htm
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