2022-05-23

The largest land animals on Earth. But their size has not protected them from the impacts of poaching or from the continued destruction of the vast swathes of interconnected habitat they need.

它们是地球上最大的陆生动物。但庞大的体型并不能保护它们免受偷猎的影响，也不能保护它们大片相互依存的栖息地免遭持续的破坏，这是它们生存所需的家园。

This latest Red List of Threatened Species – considered to be the comprehensive report on how nature is faring on an increasingly crowded planet – puts Africa's savanna1 elephants into the endangered category.

世界自然保护联盟制定的濒危物种红色名录，被认为是反映日益拥挤的地球上，自然界生存现状的详尽报告，最新公布的名录将非洲草原象列为濒危物种。

Forest elephants are now even closer to extinction2 – critically endangered.

非洲森林象现在更临近灭绝，被列为极度濒危物种。

Across Africa there are now just over 400,000 wild elephants. And this latest examination of decades of census3 data and habitat surveys has shown the demand for ivory still drives the decline in their numbers.

整个非洲目前只有40多万头野生大象。这项对数十年以来动物普查数据和栖息地调查的最新研究表明，对象牙的需求仍然是大象数量下降的驱动因素。