Only a few thousand forest elephants remain in the Central African Republic.  62 %   of them were killed and they lost one third of their range between 2002 and 2011.  Peter Canby wrote in the New Yorker about Andrea Turkalo, a biologist who has observed them for years.  Activists, groups, game wardens, and researchers try to protect the elephants.    Militias and armed gangs poach them to sell to Chinese profiteers.  Chinese logging companies log the buffers around the parks, and the logging roads and trade  in conflict timber  to China allow the poachers to get  access to the elephants and to export the ivory.  link

Posted on August 12, 2015