It shows more than 25 000 of the estimated  100 000 elephants in Central Africa  have been killed for their tusks between 2004 and 2014

A significant portion of he poachers in Gabon’s Minkébé National Park have crossed the northern border from Cameroon.

John Poulsen, assistant professor of tropical ecology at Duke University  says with nearly half of Central Africa’s estimated 100 000 forest elephants thought to live in Gabon, the loss of 25 000 elephants from this key sanctuary is a considerable setback for the preservation of the species.

Researchers used two elephant surveys conducted between 2004 and 2014, which relied on the tracking of dung left behind by the large mammals, to estimate the species’ population decline within the park’s boundaries.

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