Wow, this is so sad. Thanks to Deb Brautigam's excellent China in Africa: The Real Story Blog for the heads up on this article. Most of us are already a little bummed headed back to work on Mondays so save reading the full article for then.
Agony and Ivory
Highly emotional and completely guileless, elephants mourn their dead—and across Africa, they are grieving daily as demand from China’s “suddenly wealthy” has driven the price of ivory to $700 a pound or more. With tens of thousands of elephants being slaughtered each year for their tusks, raising the specter of an “extinction vortex,” Alex Shoumatoff travels from Kenya to Seattle to Guangzhou, China, to expose those who are guilty in the massacre—and recognize those who are determined to stop it.
Read More http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/08/elephants-201108?printable=true#ixzz1UBCKoARV
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