# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BQ1PreWDDd9
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16453190-gettyimages-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/926974be46.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-02-22T23:15:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

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Sumatra has experienced one of the highest rates of #deforestation within the Asian #elephant's range resulting in an extreme decrease in the #Sumatran elephant population over the past 25 years. Seventy percent of their habitat has been destroyed in one generation. | 📷: uletifan | #GettyImagesNews
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Climate change, pollution illegal poaching and habitat destruction increasingly threaten the well-being of wildlife around the globe every year. This #WildlifeWednesday we are highlighting some of the most critically endangered species and the factors that are driving them to extinction. [4 of 4]

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elephant, gettyimagesnews, sumatran, wildlifewednesday, deforestation

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