Savannah elephant courtesy Flickr/Bernard Dupont.
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–November 15, 2016. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent today to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to protect Africa’s two gravely imperiled elephant species as “endangered.” Unprecedented poaching for ivory and accelerating habitat loss has decimated both savannah and forest elephant populations over the past decade.
“If the current rate of poaching persists, savannah elephants could be extinct in roughly two decades…
