Forest elephants (<i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Loxodonta_cyclotis" title="Loxodonta cyclotis">Loxodonta cyclotis</a></i>) in the swamp Mbeli Bai, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouabal%C3%A9-Ndoki_National_Park" class="extiw" title="w:Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park">Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park</a>, Congo. Despite a near universal ban on trade in ivory, poaching is placing the African Forest Elephant — distinct from the Savannah Elephant — in serious jeopardy.
Thomas Breuer
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<p>In the Shadows of the Congo Basin Forest, Elephants Fall to the Illegal Ivory Trade Gross L PLoS Biology Vol. 5, No. 4, e115 <a href="//doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050115" class="extiw" title="doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050115">doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050115</a>
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