Slaughter of the elephants: Report finds 730,000 of the creatures are ‘missing’ from Africa’s protected areas due to poachers

‘Up to 730,000 elephants are ‘missing’ from Africa’s protected areas amid fears they have been slaughtered, a report has found.
Conservationists in South Africa have blamed ‘pervasive poaching’ for the dramatic reduction in numbers across 73 designated areas spanning 21 African countries.
Researchers from the Conservation Ecology Research Unit (CERU) at the University of Pretoria have called for action to protect the animals.’
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