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Without stronger controls, campaigners warn, hippos may share the fate of elephants, which have become endangered - or critically endangered in the case of the African forest elephant - because so many were killed by poachers for their tusks.

The African forest elephant is critically endangered, and the African savanna elephant is endangered.

The African Forest elephant isn’t even assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature or recognised by wildlife trade legislation.

But the net effect of lumping the two together is to significantly underestimate the vulnerability of the African forest elephant.

And that is: The largest land creatures on earth, slaughtered for trinkets, to the point where the African forest elephant could be extinct within a decade, according to Elizabeth Bennett, a species conservation scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society.