Abstract
[Extract] IN THE past decade, two-thirds of the world's forest elephants – found only in the rainforests of equatorial Africa – have been slaughtered by ivory poachers. Why this explosion in killing? Since 2000, more than 50,000 kilometres of roads have been bulldozed into this area, mostly by loggers, inadvertently opening it up to poachers armed with powerful rifles and cable snares. The elephants simply have nowhere to hide any more.
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New Scientist
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226
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0262-4079
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10.1016/S0262-4079(15)30167-6