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  2. The Critical Role of Elephants in Ecosystem Balance (and What ...

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    According to the IUCN, all elephant species are endangered. African forest elephants are listed as critically endangered , while African savanna and Asian elephants have been listed as endangered.

  3. Elephant - Wikipedia

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    African bush elephants and Asian elephants are listed as endangered and African forest elephants as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). One of the biggest threats to elephant populations is the ivory trade, as the animals are poached for their ivory tusks.

  4. African elephant - Wikipedia

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    Elephants replace their teeth four to six times in their lifetimes. At around 40 to 60 years of age, the elephant loses the last of its molars and will likely die of starvation which is a common cause of death. African elephants have 24 teeth in total, six on each quadrant of the jaw.

  5. Hundreds of endangered African elephants suddenly died. New ...

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    An aerial view shows endangered African elephants in Botswana’s Okavango Dela. The delta was also where the dead elephants were first spotted in 2020. The mass die-off of hundreds of the animals ...

  6. Researchers document huge drop in African elephants in ... - AOL

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    A population estimate by conservationists conducted separately from this study put the two species combined at between 415,000 and 540,000 elephants as of 2016, the last year of the study period.

  7. Destruction of ivory - Wikipedia

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    Between 1979 and 1989, the African elephant population decreased from 1.3 million to 600,000. Ivory became a billion-dollar market, with about 80% of the supply taken from illegally killed elephants. [2] [3] As of 2014, according to a report by the Wildlife Conservation Society, about 96 African elephants are killed for their tusks every day.

  8. The truth behind why African elephants are dropping dead - AOL

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    This study is essential for organisations that seek to conserve these elephants, who are already an endangered species. Earlier that same year, around 350 elephants dropped dead within the space ...

  9. Borneo elephant - Wikipedia

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    The pre-eminent threats to the Asian elephant today are habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, which are driven by an expanding human population, and lead in turn to increasing conflicts between humans and elephants when elephants eat or trample crops. Hundreds of people and elephants are killed annually as a result of such conflicts. [12]