70%
144 / / JANUARY 2017
The impact of poaching
26
5,940
Tiger deaths in India due to poaching in 2015.
Decline in elephant
population in Eastern
Africa, the region most
affected by poaching.Number of rangers who
are killed in the field
each week.2
50%
Number of years it
could take the elephant
population to decline by
a further 50 per cent,
according to Mike Chase,
founder of Elephants
without Borders.African rhinos killed
by poachers since 2008.10
The price that a kilo of ivory reached on the
Chinese black market in 2014. It has since
declined to around half that.$2,100
Proportion of the African elephant
population that inhabits Southern Africa- around 293,000 individuals.