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The office of the Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species (known as CITES) says rates of
elephant poaching and trade in illegal ivory remain very
high. In a new report, CITES warns that Africa’s elephants
[5] face an immediate threat to their survival because of
continued high levels of poaching for their ivory.
Twenty thousand elephants were illegally killed in
Africa last year, the report shows. That figure far exceeds
the growth rate of the elephant population. In some regions
[10] of Africa elephants are threatened with extinction.
The report also documents a clear increase in the
number of large seizures -amounts of over 500kg — of
ivory in Africa. For the first time there were more such
seizures in Africa than in Asia, an indication, the report
[15] suggests, of the involvement of transnational organized
crime in the illegal ivory trade.
And while elephant conservationists do believe that
increased ivory confiscation is a sign that law enforcement
is improving, they also point out that demand for ivory
[20] remains very high, and that even in some of the
monitored elephant populations, poaching is actually
increasing.
FOULKES, Imogen. Poaching threatens survival of African elephants. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learning english/language/wordsinthenews/2014/06/140616witnivory. shtml>. Acesso em: 13 out. 2014.
According to CITES, the illegal trade of elephants’ ivory
