Black ivory

摘要

It Is a bad time to be an elephant, particu larly in Africa. Almost 24 tonnes of ille gally-harvested ivory were seized by in vestigators in 2011—the largest haul since records began in 1990 and more than twice the amount in 2010. Traffic, a wildlife watchdog, reckons around 2,500 ele phants must have died to produce so much ivory. This year could be worse.