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AP Photo The surge in elephant slaughter is startling but not unprecedented. In 2013, as many as 300 elephants were killed in Hwange after poachers laced salt licks with cyanide.

A typical forest elephant, which weighs 5,000 to 6,000 pounds and produces 1,000 or so pounds of edible meat, can earn a poacher up to $180 for the ivory and as much as $6,000 for the meat.

The carnage has drawn comparisons to an elephant slaughter in the 1970s and 1980s that only eased with an international ban on the ivory trade in 1989.

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Incidents of elephant slaughter are also on the rise in Kenya, Tanzania and Congo. Hauls of elephant tusks found at ports in Africa and Asia reached 24 tons last year, double the figure for 2010.

Elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade were of major concern across Africa and beyond, with serious security, economic, political and ecological ramifications, the IUCN said.