Research shows the legal sale in 2008 catastrophically backfired - but two African nations want to repeat the stockpile sell-off A huge legal sale of ivory intended to cut elephant poaching instead catastrophically backfired by dramatically increasing elephant deaths, according to new research.The revelation comes just months before a decision on whether to permit another legal sale and against a backdrop of more African elephants being killed for ivory than are being born. In 2015 alone, 20,000 elephants were illegally killed. Continue reading...
Legal ivory sale drove dramatic increase in elephant poaching, study shows
13. června 2016 4:30
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Zdroj: The Guardian