Thursday, 29 December 2011

Worst year in decades for endangered elephants (AP)

FILE - In this May 27, 2005 file photo, elephants drink at a water hole in Kenya's Tsavo East national park. It's been a disastrous year for elephants, perhaps the worst since ivory sales were banned in 1989 to save the world's largest land animals from extinction, the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC said Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)AP - Large seizures of elephant tusks make this year the worst on record since ivory sales were banned in 1989, with recent estimates suggesting as many as 3,000 elephants were killed by poachers, experts said Thursday.



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