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In contrast to the number of elephants left in the wild, Ginny's passion for all Proboscidean species, and for sharing that passion with others, has continued to grow over the years. When she first came to the Zoo in 1971, there were an estimated 1,300,000 elephants in Africa and Asia; today less than 450,000 survive. Habitat loss has led to the inevitable human-elephant conflict that occurs when people have to share their homes with wildlife. Ginny is doing what she can to save dramatically declining elephant populations in the wild while working here in America to address genetic diversity in captive populations through her research with a group of elephants who have not been reproductively active since the early 1980's. In her own words, "The more we learn about elephants the more we find there is yet to know. Elephant conservationists working in situ with wild elephants and those of us working ex situ with the captive populations are collaborating to ensure that elephants will always have a place on earth to live and raise their families."

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