Elephant poaching has become a serious problem in most of Africa and stories about tons of ivory being seized at ports are not uncommon. The demand for ivory and rhino horn in Asia big and attracts criminal syndicates to Africa, killing wildlife and bribing local people to move the goods.
According to the Christian Science Monitor, a leading conservationist has now warned that poaching in Kenya is so bad that the country may lose all of its elephants within the next ten years. Richard Leakey from WildlifeDirect warned that unless urgent action is taken, the African elephant might be poached close to extinction. In 1979 the continent had around 1.2 million elephants. Today it is closer to 300,000 - a 75 percent drop in numbers.
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