A national distaster.

Poachers are killing four to five elephants a day in Mozambique, or 1,500 to 1,800 a year, according to Carlos Lopes Pereira, of the World Conservation Society.

At this rate, within 30 years the elephant will be extinct in the Niassa reserve, just as the rhinoceros has already been driven to extinction in Mozambique.

The article here: http://allafrica.com/stories/201409222278.html

Photo credit: Elephant Action League (EAL). Taratibu, Quirimbas National Park, Mozambique, June 2014