According to the Great Elephant Census, The populations of African Elephants are drastically declining. Between 2007 and 2014 the population has shrunk about 30 percent, which is largely due to poaching.
“The findings of the Great Elephant Census show clearly that poaching is still decimating elephant herds across Africa,” Ibrahim Thiaw, the deputy executive director for the United Nations Environment Program, said about the survey. “This practice makes no sense on any level — moral, economic or political.”