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Lesson plan - One Mouthful at a Time: How Forest Elephants Help Fight Climate Change
Issue or Problem: Elephants are known as a keystone species, they have a large effect on their environment and impact the biodiversity surrounding them. Recent research shows that the forest elephants of Africa provide unique ecosystem services that help mitigate climate change. However, Africa’s forest elephants are under constant threat from poaching and their numbers have been declining along with other African and Asian elephants. On top of this elephants are impacted by habitat destruction and like humans, are impacted by climate change.
