Tanzania is the Worst Place to Be an Elephant

Poaching has reduced the elephant population in Tanzania by about sixty percent for the most severe decline in Africa where poaching is a widespread problem.  (Science Daily: Poaching behind worst African elephant losses in 25 years)

Eastern Africa -- the region most affected by poaching -- has experienced an almost 50% elephant population reduction, largely attributed to an over 60% decline in Tanzania's elephant population. Although some sites have recorded declines, elephant numbers have been stable or increasing since 2006 in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda, and range expansion has been reported in Kenya.

- Science Daily

Since the elephant population increases around Tanzania, it seems it would be true in that country as well if not for poaching.  Read the article for specifics on declines in different parts of Africa.

We can't blame the Dallas Safari Club even though those callous swine are part of the same problem in which Africa prostitutes her children.  Many of the people of Africa fight it but the poachers are armed and dangerous and the profits are high.

This will probably never stop until one of two things happens:  either Africa runs out of wild animals as it's rapidly doing now or there is a more equitable distribution of wealth on the planet, not likely anything we will see any time soon.

There's not much hope for those animals so long as Trump's boys feel like heroes when they shoot a lion and Chinese people will pay fantastic sums for lion penises or whatever gets those crazy mutants hot.

It's a shame there's no better prospect but looking for reason hasn't been such a sensible pastime of late.

Another from environmental science concerns the prospect for Maine lobsters.  (Science Daily:  Rising ocean temperatures threaten baby lobsters)

The situation doesn't look too good for Maine but presumably the wise lobsters move North as the water warms and they have a fair amount of latitude to do it.  How much that means actually depends on the extremes of temperature anticipated but what happens with marine creatures in Arctic regions now.  Presumably they won't make it or perhaps they move to deeper parts of the ocean for the cold down there.

We're not interested in hearing about how climate change isn't happening as the only significant questions are how much and how fast.  It appears increasingly true the answers are more than you want and faster than you think.