Important message: CNN claim, in an article written by CNN journalists Kay Jones and Hollie Silvermanthe on August 3, 2020 on the website of CNN.com the following: There are less than 3,500 Asian elephants left in the wild and they face extinction because of ivory poaching and habitat destruction, the zoo statement said..in the article Baby elephant dies 27 days after his birth at St. Louis Zoo, but the article doesnt really state why ivory poaching should be an immediate threat to Asian elephants, and their claims of the world population of Asian elephants, is however also something to doubt.. Although IUCN seems to have forgotten to state the world population of Asian elephants at Their fact sheet about the Asian elephant, while the Asian Elephant Specialist Group state that there are elephants in 13 range states, but AESG seemingly also forgot to mention how many Asian elephants there are today, and on their website https://www.asesg.org it is also not easy to find a record about the world population of Asian elephants, but International Elephant Foundation state on the page Elephas maximus: Endangered due to loss of habitat. Numbers are currently around 30,000 – 50,000 (one-tenth of the population of African elephants, and no mention about ivory hunting in Asia), which is a number far, or rather more than ten times higher than the claim from cnn.com =There are NOT less than 3,500 Asian elephants left in the wild, as cnn claim.//Dan Koehl

28 records of elephants deaths in the database during 1980

Name Species - Sex	Birth	Death	Age	Reason	Location
Coco EM - M		1980?	?	unknown	died 5 years after arrival 1975-00-00 at Ermenonville Zoo (Zoo Jean Richard d´Ermenonville)
May EM - F	1928	1980-12-30	52	unknown	died 50 years after arrival 1930-08-23 at San Francisco Zoo
Duchess EM - F	1968	1980-12-26	12	disease peritonitis	died 5 years after arrival 1975-05-07 at Lambton Lion Park
Shirley EM - F	1971	1980-12-12	9		died 6 years after arrival 1974-00-00 at Circus Vargas
Hazel (Sapphire) LA - F	1960	1980-12-10	20	disease infection associated, generalized viral; buried	died 6 years after arrival 1974-03-14 at Knoxville Zoo
Louise EM - F		1980-12-04	?	unknown	Arnhem Zoo (Burgers Zoo)
Teresia (wild) LA - F	~1923	1980-12-00	?	killed speared	Amboseli National Park
Sudan LA - M	1952	1980-11-20	28	unknown	died 20 years after arrival 1960-04-02 at Leipzig Zoo
Louie (Old Diamond) LA - M	1946	1980-09-10	34	disease infection associated, generalized toxicity; buried	died 18 years after arrival 1962-00-00 at Knoxville Zoo
Jule LA - F		1980-09-00	?	euthanised infection	died 23 years after arrival 1957-00-00 at Munster Zoo (Allwetterzoo Munster)
Modoc EM - F	1964	1980-07-26	16	unknown	died 1 years after arrival 1979-12-15 at Los Angeles Zoo
Birma EM - F	1930	1980-07-24	50	unknown	died 7 years after arrival 1973-03-12 at Leipzig Zoo
Beira LA - F	1952	1980-07-19	28	unknown	died 6 years after arrival 1974-11-00 at Hannover Zoo
Cookie LA - F	1977	1980-04-25	3	disease infection associated generalized bacterial; buried	died 1 years after arrival 1979-05-26 at North Carolina Zoo
Zelda LA - F	1977	1980-04-13	3	disease infection associated, generalized viral; incinerated	died 1 years after arrival 1979-05-26 at North Carolina Zoo
unknown EM - M	1980-02-20	1980-04-00	0	unknown	died 0 years after arrival 1980-02-20 at Kaliningrad Zoo (Koenigsberger Tiergarten)
Polly EM - F	1968	1980-03-21	12	unknown	died 2 years after arrival 1978-07-27 at San Diego Safari Park (San Diego Wild Animal Park)
Urvashi EM - F	1975	1980-02-25	5	euthanised pathological findings on the lungs, heart, ulcers	died 1 years after arrival 1979-12-29 at Dvur Kralove Zoo
Krospi EM - F	1945	1980-01-16	35	unknown	died 20 years after arrival 1960-03-15 at Leningrad Zoo (St. Petersburg Zoo)
Kitty EM - F	1923	1980-00-00	57	unknown	died 54 years after arrival 1926-00-00 at Circus Krone
Pascha II EM - M	1972-05-18	1980	8	unknown	died 8 years after arrival 1972-05-18 at Sofia Zoo
Sandra EM - F	1963	1980	17	unknown	died 13 years after arrival 1967-00-00 at Vienna Zoo (Tiergarten Schönbrunn)
unknown LA - F		1980	?	unknown	died 0 years after arrival 1980-00-00 at Helsinki Zoo (Korkeasaari Elaintarha)
Toto LA - F	1959	1980	21	accident fell in the dry moat	died 18 years after arrival 1962-00-00 at London Zoo
unknown EM - M		1980	?	unknown	died 1 years after arrival 1979-00-00 at La Palmyre Zoo
Dominique EM - F		1980	?	unknown	died 8 years after arrival 1972-04-00 at Romanèche Touroparc
stillborn LA - M	1980	1980	0	stillborn	died 0 years after arrival 1980-00-00 at Lion Country Safari, Inc - Laguna Hills
Connie EM - F	1958	1980	22	unknown	died 0 years after arrival 1980-00-00 at Unknown