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Elephants populations in the Congo drop 80 percent in fifty years Jeremy Hance mongabay.com March 11, 2009
Populations of elephants in the region have dropped from an estimated 100,000 in the 1950s to 20,000 today. There are only six core populations of elephants in DR Congo, five of which reside in protected areas. Yet, all of them are threatened by poaching for ivory.
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