Poached Forest Elephant (IMAGE)

Wildlife Conservation Society

Poached Forest Elephant

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Because forest elephants are one the slowest reproducing mammals in the world, it will take almost a century for them to recover from the intense poaching they have suffered since 2002.

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Andrea Turkalo/WCS

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