Continuing with this week's environment-themed longreads, today's article is an investigative report from Vanity Fair about the rise of the illegal ivory trade and its effect on elephants in Africa. The article gives tremendous insight into the key drivers of the illegal ivory trade and why it is difficult to even estimate the true scope of the problem. It also profiles many of the people who are working diligently to try to mitigate the impact of this trade on Africa's elephant population.
"Agony and Ivory" by Alex Shoumatoff
Published in Vanity Fair, August 2011
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/08/elephants-201108.print
Eric
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