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    Forest elephants, a subspecies of African elephants found in the Congo Basin, are facing sharp decline due to poaching for ivory. It is estimated that forest elephants make up about a quarter to a third of the total African elephant population. They are uniquely adapted to forest habitats but are threatened by the ivory trade.

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    Forest elephants, a subspecies of African elephants found in the Congo Basin, are facing sharp decline due to poaching for ivory. It is estimated that forest elephants make up about a quarter to a third of the total African elephant population. They are uniquely adapted to forest habitats but are threatened by the ivory trade.

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    Forest elephants, a subspecies of African elephants found in the Congo Basin, are facing sharp decline due to poaching for ivory. It is estimated that forest elephants make up about a quarter to a third of the total African elephant population. They are uniquely adapted to forest habitats but are threatened by the ivory trade.

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    Forest elephants, a subspecies of African elephants found in the Congo Basin, are facing sharp decline due to poaching for ivory. It is estimated that forest elephants make up about a quarter to a third of the total African elephant population. They are uniquely adapted to forest habitats but are threatened by the ivory trade.

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    Forest elephants, a distinct

    subspecies of African elephants, are


    uniquely adapted to the forest habitat
    of the Congo Basin, but are in sharp
    decline due to poaching for the
    international ivory trade. It is
    estimated that probably one quarter
    to one third of the total African
    elephant population is made up of
    forest elephants.

    FACTS
    The African elephant is the largest
    animal walking the Earth. Their herds
    wander through 37 countries in
    Africa. They are easily recognized by
    their trunk that is used for
    communication and handling objects.
    And their large ears allow them to
    radiate excess heat. Upper incisor
    teeth develop into tusks in African
    elephants and grow throughout their
    lifetime. There are two subspecies of
    African elephants—the Savanna (or
    bush) elephant and the Forest
    “WE NEED TO
    elephant. Savanna elephants are
    larger than forest elephants, and their
    SAVE
    tusks curve outwards. In addition to
    being smaller, forest elephants are
    ELEPHANT”
    darker and their tusks are straighter
    and point downward. There are also
    differences in the size and shape of
    the skull and skeleton between the
    two subspecies.
    “It takes nothing away from a
    human to be kind to an
    “WE NEED TO SAVE animal”
    ELEPHANT”
    HOW CAN YOU
    HELP:
    Elephant Crisis Fund
    Elephants are fast disappearing
    from the wild. Without urgent,
    international action they could be THREATS
    gone within a generation. The
    Elephant Crisis Fund HABITAT LOSS AND
    FRAGMENTATION
    WHY DO WE NEED TO provides rapid, catalytic support
    African elephants have less room to
    for the most effective projects
    SAVE ELEPHANTS? designed to stop the killing, thwart roam than ever before as expanding
    traffickers and end the demand for human populations convert land for
    ivory. 100% of all donations reach agriculture, settlements and
    They are also keystone species,
    the field. developments. The elephants’ range
    playing an important role in
    shrank from three million square miles
    maintaining the biodiversity of the
    ecosystems in which they live. WHY THEY MATTER in 1979 to just over one million square
    miles in 2007. Commercial logging,
    During the dry
    The presence of African elephants plantations for biofuels and extractive
    season, elephants use their tusks to
    helps to maintain suitable habitats industries like logging and mining not
    dig for water. Wherever they
    for many other species. In central only destroy habitat but also open
    live, elephants leave dung that is
    African forests, up to 30 percent of access to remote elephant forests for
    full of seeds from the many plants
    tree species may require elephants poachers. Poverty, armed conflict and
    they eat. the displacement of people by civil
    to help with dispersal and
    germination. They play a pivotal role conflict also add to habitat loss and
    in shaping their habitat because of fragmentation. All of these push
    the enormous impact they have on elephants into smaller islands of
    factors ranging from fresh water to protected areas and hinder elephants’
    forest cover. freedom to roam.

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