No shortage of takers (Image: Liz Couldwell & Susan Doyle/Getty)
SENEGAL clings to the hope that elephants still live within its borders, even though not a single animal has been observed there in the past decade. The International Union for Conservation of Nature puts Senegal’s wild elephant population at 1, but speculates that another nine animals might be out there.
Not likely. Those elephants – or at least their tusks – have probably already passed through the sprawling tourist curio market in the country’s capital, Dakar. On a recent visit, the wildlife-trade monitoring network TRAFFIC recorded 169 kilograms of ivory openly…
