Ivory-seeking poachers have killed 100,000 African elephants in just three years, according to a new study that provides the first reliable continent-wide estimates of illegal kills. During 2011 alone, roughly one of every twelve African elephants was killed by a poacher.
In central Africa, the hardest-hit part of the continent, the regional elephant population has declined by 64 percent in a decade, a finding of the new study that supports another recent estimate developed from field surveys.
The demand for ivory, most notably in China and elsewhere in Asia, and the confusion caused by a one-time sale of confiscated ivory have helped keep black market prices high in Africa.
The new study, led by George Wittemyer of Colorado State University, included local and regional population estimates and concluded that three-quarters of local elephant populations are declining.
The study authors conducted the first large-scale analysis of poaching losses using data on illegally killed elephants maintained by CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).
Wittemyer and his team hope the new information will move the discussion beyond anecdotes and wild guesses. "I think it's the only quantitatively based estimate out there," he said.
Researchers and conservationists hope the analysis will prompt policy makers to take further action to stem the years-long onslaught of poaching, which now threatens the survival of elephants in Africa.
"Nobody's put out any scientifically-based numbers for the continent," Wittemyer said. "People have said numbers, but they're based off guesses. This is the first hard estimate we have at that level."
Source: NG
聽到很傷心...
傷害這樣
善良
的動物.
作者: gentlyman 時間: 2014-8-31 01:13 AM
.....真的太慘忍了~~~
但有需求 就會有供給
要避免這種情況再發生
我想只有...對 擁有者 有 法律的限制
才可能會有 效吧!!
~>_<~
但有金錢的人 一定就跟 權貴 塔上邊
所以...........
還是無解 ~>_<~!!作者: digiboy8866 時間: 2014-9-1 12:31 AM
我希望人类可以珍惜动物,要不然后代不知道大象是什麽。
大象的牙真的那麽好吗
谢谢分享。作者: alan420480 時間: 2014-9-1 12:23 PM
有買就有賣 殺頭的生意還是有人搶著做
再這樣下去 野生的大象 早晚被殺光作者: klamb 時間: 2014-9-2 09:38 AM
To keep the ivory from the black market, a plainclothes ranger hacks the tusks off a bull elephant killed illegally in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. In the first half of this year six park rangers died protecting Kenya’s elephants; meanwhile, rangers killed 23 poachers.