New research led by Colorado State University has revealed that an estimated 100,000 elephants in Africa were killed for their ivory between 2010 and 2012 - driving a population decline of the world's wild African elephants on the order of 2 percent to 3 percent a year. CSU Professor George Wittemyer is the lead author of the study and has been working with Save the Elephants and Kenya Wildlife Services to document every elephant birth and death over the past 16 years in Samburu, Kenya.
Wittemyer is a professor in the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology at CSU’s Warner College of Natural Resources and has dedicated his scientific career to understanding and conserving one of Earth’s most intelligent and charismatic species.
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