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fromColossal
1 week ago

Johan Siggesson's Striking Portraits of 'Big Tuskers' in Kenya

Big Tuskers are African elephant bulls with exceptionally large tusks weighing over 100 pounds that grow throughout their lives, but fewer than two dozen remain due to poaching for ivory trade.
fromwww.nydailynews.com
3 months ago

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, British zoologist and Save the Elephants founder, dies at 83

Save the Elephants said he was instrumental in exposing the ivory poaching crisis and documenting the destruction of over half of Africa's elephants in a single decade, leading up to a crucial intergovernmental decision to ban the international trade in ivory in 1989. Whether sitting quietly among elephants, poring over maps of their movements, or circling above a herd in his beloved aircraft, that glint in his eye was there, the group's CEO Frank Pope said.
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