"More protected areas are needed for the conservation of elephants in Africa"
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A savanna elephant, pictured in March 2020 in Kruger National Park, northeastern South Africa.
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By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow
7 mins
This week, experts from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature added African elephants to their red list of endangered species.
According to them, any cumulative population, today there are only 450,000 savannah and forest elephants in Africa.
This is respectively 60% and 86% less than 30 and 50 years ago.
To talk about it, Jean-Baptiste Marot is online with Françoise Malby-Anthony.
She is the owner of the Thula-Thula animal reserve (“peace and tranquility” in Zulu) in South Africa and author of the book
Un éléphant dans ma cuisine,
published by Éditions Guy Trédaniel.
Africa
Biodiversity
Animal health
Environment
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