
Counting Ivory: Does it add up? - Chthonic Wildlife Ramblings
Brendan Moyle • Oct 22, 2015 •
The publicity the illegal trade in ivory gets is at the moment, running high. By way of background, the estimated numbers of elephants being illegal killed in African range states, ranges from 25,000 to 35,000 a year. That means- roughly- there is about 250-350 tons of raw ivory being harvested by poachers annually. The average weight of a tusk is … Read More