Fact: One Elephant is killed every 15 minutes. At this rate, none will be roaming wild in 2025.
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Fact: More than 1,000 rhinos are killed every year for their horns.
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The world is dealing with an unprecedented spike in illegal wildlife trade, threatening to overturn decades of conservation gains. Ivory estimated to weigh more than 23 metric tons—a figure that represents 2,500 elephants—was seized in the 13 largest seizures of illegal ivory in 2011. Poaching threatens the last of our wild tigers that number as few as 3,200.
Wildlife crime is a big business. Run by dangerous international networks, wildlife and animal parts are trafficked much like illegal drugs and arms. By its very nature, it is almost impossible to obtain reliable figures for the value of illegal wildlife trade. Experts at TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, estimate that it runs into hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Today, the world is taking action. Please join!
The Worldwide March for Elephants and Rhinos Has Begun!
Zambia, October 2, 2014:
Malawi, October 3, 2014:
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