elephants, and especially the african forest elephants that are now really at risk. the poaching of animals is a huge, international, criminal enterprise. there s about 20 significant pockets of elephants, both savannah and forest el vant elen after rick a that really deserve our protection. what s happened here, essentially you have rising middle classes in china, in vietnam, in singapore, they have a huge appetite for ivory products. it s a real sign of stature to be able to have these ivory carvings. so it takes the elephants to do that. kill the elephants. killing the elephants runs with sort of the appetite for the ivory. but also the gun trading that goes on with some of the instability and the political instability of africa. it s a real problem. i want to end this, when i first got to africa and worked in the peace corps, bun thing the government officials said,