Forest elephants are distinguished from the more familiar savanna elephants by their smaller size and straighter tusks.
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And the implication is that what is currently savanna will become forest: we might assume that what is currently grasslands will become savanna as well.
Already, the "hard" ivory of cyclotis fetches a higher price in the growing markets of the Far East than "softer" ivory from African savanna elephants.
Toronto-based jewelry designer Reena Ahluwalia, who created the collection, says the jewelry is inspired by the day and night of the African savanna and its animal magnetism.
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She conjures millions of years of human prehistory: small groups of hunter-gatherers wandering the savanna, and then congregating a few times a year at this or that watering hole.
Savanna elephant populations in the Central African Republic are believed to have plummeted from around 80, 000 just 30 years ago to a few hundred today, according to WWF, formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund.
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In the end what makes Sanctuary Belize cool is that in the same massive development you have water front homes, savanna homes, homes with hangers (connected to an airport), equestrian homes (close to a huge stable with grazing land) and Jaguar Preserve homes in the mountains.
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The governments of three Central African nations -- Cameroon, the Central African Republic and Chad -- announced Saturday they would muster as many as 1, 000 soldiers for joint military operations to protect the region's last remaining savanna elephants, as the Sudanese poachers are still active in the region.
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The Amazon forest provides a relevant example: due to the interaction of deforestation, fire and climate change, it is predicted that the Amazon could undergo a widespread dieback in the future, with parts of the forest moving into a self-perpetuating cycle of more frequent fires and intense droughts, leading to a shift to savanna-like vegetation.
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