World Elephant Day

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Appropriate adjective for a land-dwelling behemoth (4)
• Elongated incisor targeted by illegal traders (4)
• Open, grassy plain ecosystem (7)
• Natural sunscreen applied via trunk (3)
• Illegal wildlife threat highlighted by conservation campaigns (8)
• White material banned from international trade (5)
• Tipping the scales at several thousand pounds (5)
• Resource these animals can supposedly smell from miles away (5)

Down

• Typical hue of thick, wrinkled skin (4)
• Highly intelligent, much like these mammals (5)
• Brassy, resounding call of alarm or excitement (7)
• Wise, older female leading the family unit (9)
• Natural environment increasingly fragmented by human development (7)
• Nation where the Amboseli ecosystem is located (5)
• Cooling flap on a massive mammal (3)

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