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The ivory ban agreed upon at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in October 1989, is still believed – by the majority of the 112 countries who attended – to be the only way to check the decline in African elephants at the hands of poachers. Numbers dwindled from 1.3 million in 1979 to 600,000 a decade later.
