African elephants on the brink of extinction.

According to research, 35,000 elephants are killed in Africa every year. This could see Africa's elephants wiped out in the next 100 years, if efforts to contain this poaching menace are not enhanced. This is according to a research carried out in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences. Much of the demand in elephant tusks is driven by demand in Asia, and African countries have been asking Asian countries, especially China, to put a ban on the trade on Ivory. What's more worrying, between 2010 and
2013, an average of 7 percent of the elephant population was wiped out each year. In Central Africa, the statistics are even more depressing as the elephant population has fallen down by 60 percent in the last decade.