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This is Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello. Your minute begins now.

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We may be the last generation to see elephants in the wild.

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Because people still want ivory.

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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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At least 30,000 elephants of all three remaining species have died each year in recent years.

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At that rate, wild elephants will be gone in just a few decades.

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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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In fact, the continued demand, along with the dwindling numbers of elephants, have pushed up prices for ivory.

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The resulting sales of tusks feed terrorist groups, not the poor.

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These extremist poachers employ machine guns, night-vision goggles and even helicopters.

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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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Her analysis is in the journal Conservation Biology.

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International trade in fresh ivory is already banned.

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But legal markets persist in Asia, fed by confiscated ivory stockpiles and antiques.

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Inevitably, those markets serve to launder poached ivory and drive demand.

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Therefore, all ivory markets must be closed.

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Otherwise we may be living through the end times for elephants.

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Your minute is up, for Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello.

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