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1/11/2017

Topic Reading-Vol.1736-1/11/2017

Dear MEL Topic Readers,
'We are failing the elephants'
There used to be as many as 20 million elephants in Africa. But the population is estimated to have shrunk to only half a million at most in the continent. Global warming to blame?
In fact, they have been killed by bullets of poachers for their ivory. It is popular especially among Chinese as a luxury gift, a purported medicine and also as a valuable investment. As the economy grew rapidly, demand for such highly-valued body part has increased, thus stimulated poaching and trafficking. Despite the governments’ and non-government institutions’ initiatives to catch those illegal poachers and traders, there still are intolerable number of killings of elephants. The savanna is just too huge to keep an eye on all the time.
Enjoy reading the article and watching the video, and think what else could be done to save the largest animal on the land. 

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