But between 1976 and 1987, the total population of Elephants in Africa fell dramatically from about 3 million animals to fewer than 700,000 elephants. Adult elephants have no natural predators. This rapid decline was mainly as a result of we humans who killed elephants for their ivory or maybe because they threatened our crops or property.
As a result of it’s decline, the African elephant is classified in The Red Data book as ‘vulnerable to extinction’. Scientists predicted that the ivory trade continued undebated, the elephants would become extinct in about 20 years or so. :(
So, in response to this threat, some countries agreed a worldwide ban on the ivory trade in 1989. Today, there are about 600,000 African elephants remaining in the wild.
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