- As killings of elephants in Africa spiked in early 2010s, some conservation organizations claimed the ivory trade was financing armed groups like al-Shabaab. According to a new study, those ties were overstated and strategically pushed by NGOs in order to attract funding for anti-poaching efforts. https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/links-between-terrorism-and-the-ivory-trade-overblown-study-says/ 132 comments science
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- How Killing Elephants Finances Terror in Africa | National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/tracking-ivory/article.html 0 comments
- African elephant poaching rates correlate with local poverty, national corruption and global ivory price | Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09993-2 0 comments
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