4777 x 3412 px | 40,4 x 28,9 cm | 15,9 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
19. September 2016
Ort:
Tarangire National Park, Tanzania
Weitere Informationen:
African elephants are elephants of the genus Loxodonta, . The genus consists of two extant species: the African bush elephant, L. africana, and the smaller African forest elephant, L. cyclotis. Loxodonta is one of two existing genera of the family, Elephantidae. One species of African elephant, the bush elephant, is the largest living terrestrial animal, while the forest elephant is the third largest. African elephants are found in Eastern, Southern, Central, and West Africa. During the 20th century, poaching significantly reduced the population of Loxodonta in some regions. The World Wide Fund for Nature believes there were between 3 and 5 million African elephants as recently as the 1930s and 1940s.[42] Between 1980 and 1990 the population of African elephants was more than halved, from 1.3 million to around 600, 000. Between 1973 and 1989, the African elephant population of Kenya declined by 85%. In Chad, the population declined from 400, 000 in 1970 to about 10, 000 in 2006. The population in the Tanzanian Selous Game Reserve, once the largest of any reserve in the world, dropped from 109, 000 in 1976 to 13, 000 in 2013. 85, 000 elephants were lost to poaching in Tanzania between 2009 and 2014.
