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Population of Africa's elephants drops due to poaching

  African elephants population have dropped drastically to less 420,000. Poaching is an illegal activity that has eaten deep into some countries in African. The illegal killing of these animals, helps the hunter to export the Ivory collected to Asia for money. Some species of the poached wildlife has been whipped away and leaving the remaining species endangered.
   US and China have made a good effort by destroying some thousands of Ivory collected,thereby trying to discourage poaches,yet the activity is still on the rise.
   A summit has been held in Johannesburg by the convention on international trade in endangered species (CITES), to discuss solutions to combating world's most endangered species.

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