Elephant

Still poached for ivory

How many elephants are killed

Elephant

How many elephants are killed a year for ivory?

Around 20,000 African elephants were killed last year for their tusks, more than were born.
Chinese wealth is financing a hunger for ivory that threatens to bring an end to wild elephants within our lifetime.
There has never been a more dangerous time to be an elephant.
Not during the industrial pillaging of the colonial era,
nor the chaotic African and Asian independence movements that sparked a 1970s poaching boom,
has an elephant been more likely to fall to a gun.