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More elephants are being killed each year than are being born.\u00a0 There aren’t that many left anyway; maybe as many in the world as the number of people that live in the town you live in.<\/p>\nMore elephants are being killed each year than are being born.\u00a0 There aren’t that many left anyway; maybe as many in the world as the number of people that live in the town you live in.<\/p>\n
There’s not much to be done.\u00a0 People think it’s OK to kill elephants, after all “they are a resource for humans to consume”.\u00a0 Nevertheless it seems common sense to look after a valuable resource, but primitive instinct overrides common sense and we think its better to gobble them up before they’re gone.\u00a0 C’mon people – get smart.<\/p>\n
BTW, we also just found that we’ve made a massive freshwater amazonian fish extinct too.\u00a0 Soon there’ll be little of nature’s wonder left…<\/p>\n
BBC: Giant Amazon fish ‘locally extinct’ due to overfishing<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More elephants are being killed each year than are being born.\u00a0 There aren’t that many left anyway; maybe as many in the world as the number of people that live in the town you live in. There’s not much to be done.\u00a0 People think it’s OK to kill elephants, after all “they are a resource …![\"Arapaima](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76920000\/jpg\/_76920462_pirarucupescacompixunap1000593.jpg\")
<\/a>BBC: Elephant poaching deaths reach tipping point in Africa<\/a><\/p>\n
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