Elephants can travel up to 50 miles a day, with many crossing international borders. ➡ Subscribe: bit.ly/NatGeoWILDSubscribe About Nat Geo Wild: Welcome to a place so wild, anything can happen. Nat Geo Wild is the network all about animals from National Geographic, where every story is an adventure and your imagination is allowed to run wild. Get More Nat Geo Wild: Official Site: bit.ly/NatGeoWILD Facebook: bit.ly/NGWFacebook Twitter: bit.ly/NGWTwitter Instagram: bit.ly/NGWInstagram With 75 percent of them living near national borders, an elephant can begin the evening in one country and end up in another by morning. Depending on what country the animals enter, their level of protection from poaching varies. Each year, poachers kill 27,000 savanna elephants for their ivory. Researchers say there needs to be shared management and protection of migratory elephants … no matter what side of the border they are on. Elephants Don't Recognize Borders, Which May Put Them at Risk | Nat Geo Wild youtu.be/tzVgNfkzL6Q Nat Geo Wild www.youtube.com/user/NatGeoWild

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