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by SantaFeJoe on Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:48 am

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A huge 50 year old elephant was killed in Zimbabwe. I haven't seen a photo of it yet, but the article says the tusks nearly dragged on the ground.

http://news.yahoo.com/huge-50-old-eleph ... 51054.html

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by SantaFeJoe on Fri Oct 16, 2015 6:51 pm

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I think this is a photo of the elephant in this article:

http://news.yahoo.com/german-hunter-kil ... 15175.html

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by RickEvansTheThird on Fri Oct 16, 2015 9:28 pm

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This is so sad. I wish the second article you posted didn't just lump the U.S. in with awful exploitative places like China and Vietnam. The U.S. has essentially put a complete ban on commercial ivory trade as of 2014, and further measures are taking place right now to strengthen the laws. Seems like the author should have included that since I don't see any other countries doing ANYTHING about this abhorrent trend.

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