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The IUCN¹ Red List, which lists all rare species, classes Asian elephants as ‘endangered’.  This means the species ‘faces a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future’.

¹International Union for Conservation of Nature

Population decline

Asia’s elephants
1900 – 100,000
1995 – 50,000
2007 – 35,000; IUCN status: ‘Endangered’

CITES STATUS:

Appendix I