The elephant poaching crisis in Africa, fueled in part by demand for ivory in the far east, is getting worse. Environmentalists warn that elephants are being killed on an industrialized scale in Mozambique, where 22 elephants were killed for their tusks in the first two weeks of September alone. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said organized crime syndicates are slaughtering between 1,500 and 1,800 elephants a year in the east African country.
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