Reportage series - S01 E01 - Blood Tusks

Reportage series - S01 E01 - Blood Tusks

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Animal protection

A hundred elephants die every day in Africa killed by poachers, members of the militia or of terrorist organizations like Al Shabab. Their tusks sell for €600 per kilo, and an emerging middle class in China demands ivory as symbol of their new wealth status and International criminal gangs are there to cater to them.

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