Researchers: Huge Drop in African Elephants — VOA Learning English
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African elephants are Earth's largest land animals. They are very intelligent and highly social. A recent study also says that numbers of African elephants sharply decreased over about fifty years.
The researchers described their work as the most comprehensive study of the two African elephant species - the savanna elephant and forest elephant. The study used data gathered at 475 areas in 37 countries from 1964 through 2016.
It found that savanna elephant populations fell by about 70 percent on average and forest elephant populations dropped by about 90 percent on average. The researchers mainly blame the decline on illegal hunting and the loss of the animals’ natural environment.
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