- November 6, 2013
- in Green Tips
- by marcos
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According to a new survey, elephants have declined by 50 percent or more in the last 40 years despite protection in the savannas in West and Central Africa. More alarming is that populations have become highly fragmented, with several far below the limit of what is thought to be sustainable.
Treehugger reports researchers estimate an elephant population of 7,750 across the Sudano-Sahelian zone. This area of savanna stretches across the continent just below the Sahara desert.
23 populations studied had fewer than 200 individual which is the benchmark for a sustainable elephant community.
