ECOLOGY

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CNN - Efforts to protect endangered African elephants from the threat
of extinction are being undermined by a burgeoning ivory smuggling
network run by Asian crime gangs and by a "rampant trade" in illegal
ivory on auction Web sites such as eBay, according to two new reports.
Ivory trading has been outlawed since 1989 by the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species, following a collapse in the
African elephant population which saw numbers decline from 1.3 million
in 1979 to just 300,000 by 1998. But a new report by wildlife monitoring
network Traffic warns that large-scale ivory smuggling to Asian
countries including China and Japan is threatening to undermine
conservation efforts, with around 20,000 elephants still estimated to be
poached every year.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/05/22/endangered.elephants/index.html


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