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A Malayan Tapir calf was born to Mom Bertie at the Minnesota Zoo. The baby looks like a furry black and white striped watermelon with legs! Malayan tapirs are endangered partly due to habitat loss in Southeast Asia from deforestation for oil palm plantations. Tapirs look kind of like a pig with a trunk!
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The sale of ivory has been banned in China! Most ivory is obtained from elephant tusks. Elephants are an endangered species because of poaching and habitat loss. Nearly 30,000 elephants a year were killed illegally for their tusks, so conservationists are excited that China has taken this big step to help protect them.
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