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POACHING NO LONGER THE BIGGEST THREAT TO ELEPHANTS

Thanks to the efforts of many, the reduction in the ivory crisis over the last five years has been a significant, but still fragile, success. Ten years ago, it would have been difficult to imagine the world as it is today— one in which most of the major ivory trafficking networks have been so severely disrupted that traffickers are unwilling to take the risk of dealing in ivory, and where Chinese law enforcement agencies are carrying out their own sophisticated investigations into trafficking networks and diligently following up on leads provided to them by international NGOs. These changes are tremendously positive for elephants.

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