Global War Against Nature: 100 Elephants Killed Each Day in Illegal Ivory Trade

(Before It's News)

Global War Against Nature: 100 Elephants Killed Each Day in Illegal Ivory Trade. Though largely unacknowledged, the current war is far redder in tooth and claw than anything nature has to offer. It threatens not just charismatic species like elephants, gibbons, and rhinos, but countless others with permanent oblivion.

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