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The country�s elephant population fell by 60 percent historically years to around 43,000, according to a recent nationwide census. The census results were recently announced by Tanzania's minister of natural resources and tourism, Lazaro Nyalandu. (Read about how most of Tanzania's elephants are disappearing.)

Picture of an elephant in Tanzania
A male elephant in Tanzaniaâ��s Serengeti National Park spreads his ears as a warning. Between 2009 and 2014, elephant numbers in the Serengeti ecosystem  doubled, to 6,087. But in larger, more remote areas, poaching has taken a terrible toll.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MITSUAKI IWAGO, MINDEN/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
The East African nation of Tanzania has been the main source of illegal ivory from savanna elephants for  a decade, according to a new DNA study of tusks from confiscated ivory shipments.

Nyalandu drew praise for making such grim figures public even as they was seeking nomination as the ruling party�s next presidential candidate. (They didn�t make the shortlist.)

Yet the announcement also sparked ridicule.

Nyalandu characterized the survey results as a "mixed bag" and said his ministry would "launch an extensive operation in search" for 12,000 "lost" elephants.