The west has preferred to focus on endangered animals, rather than endangered humans. African elephants are hunted down and stripped of tusks and hidden by poachers. Their numbers in Africa slumped from 1.2m to 600,000 in a decade until CITES - the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species - banned the trade in ivory.
the west has preferred to focus on endangered animals rather than endangered humans african elephants are hunted down and stripped of tusks and hidden by poachers their numbers in africa slumped from 1 2m to 600 000 in a decade until cites the convention on international trade in endangered species banned the trade in ivory