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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Ivory can be taken from dead animals – however, most ivory came from elephants that were killed for their tusks. For example, in 1930 to acquire 40 tons of ivory required the killing of approximately 700 elephants.

In 2011, some 17,000 African elephants were killed for their tusks

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