Ivory trade
At least one hundred dead elephants were spotted on the border of Chad's Zakouma National Park in the last week of August. Poachers hacked off the animals' heads to remove tusks and left the carcasses behind. The park is located in a wilderness that was home to about 300,000 elephants in the 1970s. Mass slaughter to feed the international ivory trade has now left only 10,000 animals in the region.
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