Microsoft Blogs – 6.7.19 (6.4.19)
Elephants used to wander freely across Asia. Today, they roam through a fraction of the land they used to. As the human population grows, Asian elephant habitat continues to shrink. In Africa, the story isn’t much brighter: In addition to dwindling habitat, the African elephant contends with an illegal ivory trade that kills more than 20,000 elephants a year. Conservationists and researchers are doing all they can. But with fewer than 500,000 elephants left worldwide, time is running out.
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