In 2010, about 38,000 elephants were poached in Africa, 38,000. Now, let’s just think about that a minute, 38,000 is more elephants than exist in all the zoos of the world. It may be more elephants than exist or have ever existed in all the zoos of the world. That’s a lot of elephants, one year 38,000 elephants killed for their tusk.
