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- Largest land mammals on Earth
- They are mainly hunted for their ivory tusks, but their tusks are not as valuable as a rhino horn.
- The African elephant population decreased by about two-thirds in thirty-two years.
- Matriarchs and older elephants are most prized because of their huge tusks
- From 1980-2012 ⅔ of the population was destroyed
- An elephant tusk is worth 4,000 dollars.
- Ivory help fund groups that threaten people across Africa and are linked to terrorists groups
- In 2014, ninety-six African elephants were killed daily by poachers.
- When the Matriarchs are killed the family or group are lost and don’t know what to do so they roam around and are lost.