Tanzania has emerged as the epicenter of Africa’s elephant poaching crisis after a government census revealed it had lost a “catastrophic” 60% of its elephants in just five years. Between 2009 and 2014, the number of elephants dropped from 109,051 to 43,330. The results will pile pressure on a government that has been heavily criticized for its inability to stop a flood of poached ivory being stripped from its national parks.
Link: The Guardian