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Tue Jun 2, 2015, 11:33 AM Jun 2015

Tanzania elephant population declined by 60% in five years, census reveals

Tanzania has emerged as the epicentre of Africa’s elephant poaching crisis after a government census revealed it had lost a “catastrophic” 60% of its elephants in just five years.

The results will pile pressure on a government that has been heavily criticised for its inability to stop a flood of poached ivory being stripped from its national parks.

Tanzania’s elephant population is one of the continent’s largest. But data, released on Monday by the Tanzanian government, showed that between 2009 and 2014 the number dropped from 109,051 to 43,330. When an annual birth rate of 5% is taken into account the number of dead is 85,181.

The census reveals a loss to Africa’s elephants far greater than declines reported in Mozambique last week.

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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/02/tanzania-epicentre-of-elephant-poaching-census-reveals?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Tanzania elephant population declined by 60% in five years, census reveals (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2015 OP
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Damn! Post Recommend. Duppers Jun 2015 #2
Part of the tragic tapestry of our times GliderGuider Jun 2015 #3
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