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CAN CITES SAVE THE ELEPHANT?
There is an extraordinary truth to the expression “it’s written all over your face.” It was 1994 and I was an observer at the CITES ...
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A HORRIBLE ELEPHANT DÉJÀ VU
I spent a great deal of my life in the late 1980s undercover, following the sound of drills carving out ivory name seals for the Japanese...