Is China Moving Fast Enough to Save the African Elephant?

In June, conservationists and others concerned about the poaching of African elephants were shocked by the release of a survey showing that the number of elephants in Tanzania had fallen from 109,051 in 2009 to 43,330 in 2014--a drop of sixty per cent in just five years. "Flying over these huge areas and even driving through, you used to see dozens of huge bull elephants. There was this incredible sense of life missing from that landscape that's so defined by these creatures. It's just hollow," ...