•African elephants stand 13 feet tall

•Weigh 5 tons

•Largest mammal to walk the earth for over 55 million years!

•Due to poaching and habitat loss elephants have been restricted to parks and preserves

•Between 1979 and 1989 the elephants population dropped from 1.3 million animals to 609,000

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African forest elephant

African savanna elephant

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•Elephant population dropped half a million in a ten year period

•International ivory sales banned in 1990

•Poaching driven by wealth and revenge