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CANDACE |
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Loxodonta africana
sapiens
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Long hunted for their ivory this
remarkable species has suffered at the hands of humans for generation
after generation. Slaughtered for their tusks and forced into
shrinking habitats, Candace and her kind have had enough!
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Between 1979 and 1989, the worldwide demand for ivory caused elephant
populations to decline to dangerously low levels. During this time
period, poachings fueled by ivory sales cut Africa's elephant population
in half. In 1977, 1.3 million elephants lived in Africa; by 1997, only
600,000 remained. Recently, that number has stabilized, due in large
part to the 1990 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
(CITES) ban on international ivory sales. But in June, 1997,
CITES
voted partially to lift trade sanctions and to allow Zimbabwe, Botswana,
and Namibia to sell stockpiled ivory to Japan, where there is a major
ivory market. Many conservation groups fear that this slight loosening
of the ivory ban will rekindle poaching throughout the elephants' range.
Even though it is illegal to kill an elephant in Africa, people continue
to slaughter the mammoth beasts -- if not for ivory, then for revenge.
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With a temper to match her mass, Candace
will rampage poachers' campsites without quarter. Her
preferred weapon of choice is the R.P.G. and then to gore and finish off
the enemy with her titanium armored tusks. The last thing she
wants the poachers to see is their own bodies impaled on her tusks.
Candace is great friends with Affsonso as they are neighbors and share
similar plights. Very protective of her loved ones and her I.W.G.
team members, Candace is considered to be the group's mother figure and
loved equally in return.
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