Elephants from the Air (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Elephants from the Air

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Investigators led by Elephants Without Borders director Mike Chase say the Pan-African Great Elephant Census shows that for savanna elephant populations in 15 GEC countries for which repeat counts were available, populations declined by 30 percent, or 144,000 animals, between 2007 and 2014.

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