Please help Support the Elephant Picture Courtesy of Tembe Elephant Park History of a slaughter Elephants use their tusks for stripping trees, moving stuff, fighting and display. Although ivory has been revered for its lustrous allure for centuries, large-scale killing of elephants for ivory did not begin until about 1900. Yet in the 1930s, an estimated 5 to 10 million elephants remained across the continent. Between 1979 and 1992, their numbers plunged from 1.3 million to about 600,000. Please help us.
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