Two young elephants play in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. According to a report released on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, scientists found that most large ivory seizures between 2002 and 2019 contained tusks from repeated poaching of the same elephant populations. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
February 14, 2022
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February 14, 2022 10:35 a.m.
DNA analysis of elephant ivory reveals trafficking networks
From around 5 million elephants a century ago to 1.3 million in 1979, the total number of elephants in Africa is now estimated to be around 415,000.