African Elephants Experience Increased Endangerment Risk Due To Poachers, Habitat Loss

Rising threats from poachers resulting in substantial habitat loss have put Africa’s elephant populations at increased risk, according to a report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. African woodland elephants are especially vulnerable and African savanna elephants are extremely endangered.

African woodland and savanna elephants have been hit the hardest

The two species had previously been combined as one species and were regarded…

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