Sentence examples for the number of elephants from inspiring English sources

WHY is the number of elephants being killed illegally rising?

Between 2009 and 2014 the number of elephants dropped from 109,051 to 43,330.

So nobody knows precisely the number of elephants, nor how fast the population is growing.

We do not have time series on the number of elephants".

The demand for ivory from China alone massively exceeds supply – in other words, the number of elephants.

The number of elephants being killed by poachers in Africa remains unchanged a year after 46 countries pledged to control the illegal ivory trade.

In Mozambique, the number of elephant carcasses is positively associated with State-managed protected areas such as Niassa Reserve, but particularly with environmental variables including low rainfall and high temperatures.

We employ a spatial modelling approach to quantify the relative contribution of multiple climatic, ecological, human and protected area management predictors of the number of elephant carcasses in a recognized poaching hotspot: the Ruvuma landscape of northern Mozambique and southern Tanzania.

In Uganda we have a good story to tell: the Ugandan Wildlife Authority's park rangers, in cooperation with the army, police and other national agencies, have used sophisticated surveillance techniques and improved security to halve the number of elephant deaths by poaching from 25 in 2011 to 11 in 2013.

As a result, the number of elephant and black rhino killings was reduced by tenfold over the course of the 2-year study.

Most revealing: The number of elephant dung piles increased significantly away from roads built to give loggers access to African hardwoods.