(from CNN) ‘Will elephants still roam earth in 20 years?’

AN EXCERPT:   (CNN) — At the start of the 1980s there were more than a million elephants in Africa. During that decade, 600,000 were destroyed for ivory products. Today perhaps no more than 400,000 remain across the continent, according to Samuel Wasser of the University of Washington, who is widely recognized as an authority on the subject….It is a tragedy beyond reckoning and humanity needs to pay attention to the plight of the elephants before it is too late.

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/15/world/africa/elephants-extinction-africa/index.html?hpt=hp_c4