Yesterday was World Elephant Day, an annual event dedicated to the preservation and protection of the world’s elephants. In recent years, elephant numbers have dwindled due to poaching, deforestation and other serious threats. Every year, around 20,000 African elephants are killed by poachers for their tusks, which are then sold in the illegal ivory […]

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