Lydia Millet - Without elephants, Africa's landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals ...

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Without elephants, Africa's landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals have fallen by the hundreds of thousands as a result of two enormous waves of poaching in this century - one in the 1970s and 1980s, the other, beginning around 2009, now underway.

Lydia Millet

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ohne Elefanten wäre die Landschaft Afrikas nicht wiederzuerkennen, doch sind diese Tiere durch zwei gewaltige Wildereiwellen in diesem Jahrhundert um Hunderttausende gefallen - eine in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren, die andere beginnt um 2009 herum und ist jetzt unterwegs.

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