Poaching empties critical Central African wilderness of forest elephants.

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Current Biology

• Publication date

  2017-02-20

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.023PMID 28222286
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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