1.   The elephant population is dwindling.

2.   ...the elephant populations of Tanzania and Kenya.

3.   Bangkok has a rapidly expanding elephant population due to a government ban on logging.

4.   Leakey added that elephant populations had not yet recovered sufficiently to allow trade to resume, but predicted that talks with pro-trading states would continue.

5.   The SADF has been accused of involvement in ivory smuggling in the past, notably during the Angolan and Namibian wars, when the local elephant population was devastated.

6.   Zimbabwe supports controlled culling of its large elephant population and has been looking for legal ways to cover the costs.

7.   As elephant populations soar, southern African nations are lobbying to restore the international trade in ivory.

8.   Both use the size of the elephant population as a trigger.

9.   But South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe say a properly monitored ivory trade would not threaten the elephant population.

10.   In places of enduring conflict like Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and southern Senegal, no reliable data exist on elephant populations.