Though humans may be the most powerful species on the planet, the Earth’s ecosystem is home to about 8.7 million different species. Despite the small slice of biodiversity that people represent, humanity is responsible for the death of half of the world’s wildlife in the past forty years, according to the World Wildlife Foundation. The African elephant, in particular, faces extinction due to the international ivory trade, as well as habitat destruction. During the 1980′s, approximately 100,000 elephants killed each year on the continent and, despite efforts to stop the ivory trade, 2011 “saw the highest volume of illegal ivory seized since global records began in 1989″, says WWF.…
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