Elephant extinction

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Africa's forest elephants follow the mammoth



The fate of the forest elephant rests in our hands. But will it go the way of the woolly mammoth, as it is hunted for ivory and its habitat is destroyed?

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Forest elephants are being poached at an alarming rate”

Biologist Stephen Blake
Have you ever wondered why hawthorn trees have such vicious thorns? Like many spiny plants, this is a defence they have evolved to avoid being eaten - by giant herbivores, including elephants



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And there's probably very little we can do, where there are civil wars and insurgency, the protagonists appear to have no respect for human life, so they will certainly not be concerned about the extinction of an animal species.