The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) documents
Major decline in DR Congo’s last large forest elephant population
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) largest remaining forest elephant population, located in the Okapi Faunal Reserve (OFR), has declined by 37 percent in the last five years, with only 1,700 elephants now remaining, according to wildlife surveys by WCS and DRC officials.
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Updated:
(3.01.2013)