According to updated information in the International Red Book, African elephants are on the brink
We are talking about the African forest elephant(Loxodonta cyclotis) and African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana): The African forest elephant has been moved to the Critically Endangered list and the savannah elephant has been placed on the Endangered list.
According to the IUCN, these animals were previously "vulnerable".
Changes had to be made in the assessment of the hazard level against the background of the population decline due to poaching of ivory. The habitats of this species of animals have also decreased.
If poachers do not stop their activities, then in the coming years elephants will completely disappear. According to experts, there are only 415 thousand elephants left in Africa.
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