A stark dichotomy exists in the fate of Africa’s elephants. While elephants in some parts of the continent are still beleaguered by ivory poachers, elsewhere they are multiplying rapidly.
A preliminary analysis of elephant death rates collected by Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants suggests that elephant poaching is most severe and unsustainable in central African countries, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. MIKE was set up by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to monitor poaching.
And last week conservationists, including the WWF, called for sanctions to be imposed on Mozambique for failing to curb…
