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As Animal Poaching Surges, Organized Crime Plays Bigger Role [1]

Mozambique lost 48 percent of its elephants from poaching in the past five years—a decline from 20,000 to 10,300—the Wildlife Conservation Society reported on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
27/05/2015
National Geographic News [2]
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Wildlife [3], Poaching [4], Illegal Trade [5], Mozambique [6], Africa [7], China [8], Asia [9], Endangered Species [10]
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