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"It's a grim and all too common sight for rangers in some of Africa's nature reserves: the bullet-riddled carcass of an elephant, its tusks removed by poachers. African elephant populations have fallen by about 30% since 2006. Poaching has driven the decline.
Some reserves, such as Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nyerere National Park in Tanzania, have lost hundreds of
