The practice assignment: Using Adobe Illustrator, create an infographic using information obtained from an article, include 3-5 graphs, an illustration, an image, and copy.

African Elephants Are Evolving To Avoid Poaching

Some 32% of female elephants in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park are now born tuskless—a far cry from the 2% to 4% naturally occurring in Africa’s wild, per research published in National Geographic.

Approx. 415,000 Elephants Remain In The Wild

KEY THREATS: Poaching; Habitat loss and fragmentation; Human-elephant conflictTUSKLESSNESS IS TRENDING

Naturally Occurring in Africa

Only 2 to 4 percent of female African elephants never develop tusks in the wild.

Mozambique: Gorongosa National Park

Tuskless elephants eluded poaching during the civil war and passed this trait to many of their daughters.

Tanzania: Ruaha National Park

Poaching in the 1970s and ’80s gave tuskless elephants here a similar biological advantage.

(They’re the lone survivors of a conflict that killed about 90 percent of these beleaguered animals, for ivory to finance weapons and for meat to feed the fighters.)