Founder of The African Wildlife Trust, Elephant Poaching & A Global Ban on Ivory: Pratik Patel

Pratik Patel is the founder of The African Wildlife Trust. In the 1930s there were over 10 million elephants roaming the continent of Africa, today there are less than 400,000. Every year 35,000+ elephants are killed and 40% of females found dead are pregnant. One elephant is slaughtered every 15 minutes...and this is in protected areas! If this does not change elephants will become extinct in less than 10 years. The largest market for ivory is China, where it is considered a status symbol. Africa has lost 90% of its elephant population in the last 50 years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.