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That's more than 100 elephants killed every day, or four every hour. And every year, hundreds of chimpanzees are illegally killed for the commercial 'bushmeat' trade and for traditional medicines. Entire families of this intelligent, complex species are hunted, killed and eaten on a daily basis, their distressed babies sold as pets. Meanwhile in Asia the tiger could be about to disappear from some jungles forever. They have no defense against well-armed poachers and their guns, snares and poison. Tigers are skinned for fur, and dismembered for bones and other body parts.
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That's more than 100 elephants killed every day, or four every hour. And every year, hundreds of chimpanzees are illegally killed for the commercial 'bushmeat' trade and for traditional medicines. Entire families of this intelligent, complex species are hunted, killed and eaten on a daily basis, their distressed babies sold as pets. Meanwhile in Asia the tiger could be about to disappear from some jungles forever. They have no defense against well-armed poachers and their guns, snares and poison. Tigers are skinned for fur, and dismembered for bones and other body parts.
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