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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello. Your minute begins now.
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2 .We may be the last generation to see elephants in the wild.
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3 .Because people still want ivory.
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4 .Nearly two-thirds of all forest elephants have been killed for their tusks in the last decade, some 60 elephants per day.
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5 .At least 30,000 elephants of all three remaining species have died each year in recent years.
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6 .At that rate, wild elephants will be gone in just a few decades.
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7 .All so their modified incisors can be used as a raw material for art in Asia or the bows of string instruments in Europe.
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8 .In fact, the continued demand, along with the dwindling numbers of elephants, have pushed up prices for ivory.
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9 .The resulting sales of tusks feed terrorist groups, not the poor.
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10 .These extremist poachers employ machine guns, night-vision goggles and even helicopters.
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11 .Only one action can save the world's wild elephants, according to Elizabeth Bennett, Vice President for Species Conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society: close all ivory markets.
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12 .Her analysis is in the journal Conservation Biology.
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13 .International trade in fresh ivory is already banned.
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14 .But legal markets persist in Asia, fed by confiscated ivory stockpiles and antiques.
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15 .Inevitably, those markets serve to launder poached ivory and drive demand.
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16 .Therefore, all ivory markets must be closed.
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17 .Otherwise we may be living through the end times for elephants.
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18 .Your minute is up, for Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello.
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