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KNYSNA’S TUSKERS: A TIMELINE OF THEIR DEMISE

1400s-1500s Around 1 000 elephants estimated to be living in the southern Cape are pushed deep into the forests by European farmers and hunters.

1700s-1870 Increasing human settlements, hunting and the ivory trade begin to decimate the Cape elephant populations.

Only two populations of southern Cape elephant remain, at

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