African elephants grow to be 13 feet tall and can weigh up to 15,432 pounds, according to National Geographic. Elephant ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... trading of ivory from domesticated Asian elephants, and smuggled African ivory finds its way into the mix.

This story was originally published in the October 2017 issue of National ... Geographic magazine. The people in this story agreed to be photographed on condition that their names be withheld ...