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In pictures: Africa’s forest elephants
African forest elephant —
Conservationists say poachers have shrunk Africa's forest elephant population by more than 60%, threatening the magnificent mammals with eventual extinction.
COURTESY JULIA GESSNER
African forest elephant —
Once wide-ranging, forest elephants are now reluctant to roam because of humans encroaching on their habitats, compromising the future of this species.
COURTESY WWF
Ranger patrol —
Environmentalists and park rangers patrol Cameroon's Lobeke National Park as part of efforts to deter poaching and arrest illegal hunters.
Ivory trade —
Seized ivory tusks are displayed during a Hong Kong Customs press conference on January 4, 2013. The precious commodity is selling for hundreds, even thousands of dollars per kilogram on the black market.
DALE de la REY/AFP/Getty Images/file
Elephant poaching —
Last year, heavily-armed poachers from Sudan arrived on horseback to the Bouba Ndjida Park in northern Cameroon. They slaughtered more than 300 elephants within a matter of weeks, taking only the tusks.
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Zacharie Nzooh —
Conservation group WWF project manager Zacharie Nzooh says the elephant stands a chance so long as the crackdown on ivory markets continues.
CNN
African forest elephant —
"The number of elephants in the national park of Lobeke has not reached a critical stage," says Nzooh. "I am certain that if significant efforts are put in place the elephants will survive. Those efforts must be made on different levels, on site level, on an international level and on a national level."
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Lobeke National Park —
Lobeke is situated in southeast Cameroon, within the Congo Basin forest. The park and its peripheral zone cover more than 650,000 hectares.