JUBA, South Sudan, July 2 (UPI) -- South Sudan says it has fitted elephants with GPS collars for remote tracking as part of an effort to protect its remaining elephants from ivory poachers.
The country's Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism, working with the Wildlife Conservation Society, placed collars on a number of elephants in late May and early June to track and monitor the majority of South Sudan's remaining populations, estimated to have dropped to fewer than 5,000 elephants, a WCS release reported Monday.
Elephant herds in South Sudan, thought to contain around 80,000 animals in the 1960s-70s, were decimated during years of civil war and the survivors are under increasing threat from ivory poaching, officials said.
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