marcus asner is an attorney and is on the residence advisory council for wildlife trafficking.leased to have you all here with me. this is an important conversation. tell me about the magnificence of the elephant. period. >> for all of us, elephants represent savannah, africa, the great landscape, the serengeti. and then their behavior, the way elephants treat their young, the way they live in complex societies. for so many of us, elephants are evocative what africa is. >> and they are not alone in terms of wildlife in trouble. >> it is so magnificent and so diverse. there are the great cats -- the lions, the leopards, the cheetah. >> all under threat. >> if you look at numbers, they are plummeting and it's very alarming. four of the five great apes in the world are in africa. there are orangutans, bonobos, chimpanzees. as central african forest are being logged and being captured for the pet trade, they are also under threat. really, it's about wildlife generally. africa is undergoing economic modernization. but we hope is that it does not lose its wildlife in the course of th