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There are around 415,000 African elephants left in the world. Their numbers have drastically decreased mostly due to poaching and habitat loss. In fact, what are believed to be the last three elephants still in a zoo, are currently in the middle of a court battle to determine their future. Reporter Elna Schütz visited them at the Johannesburg Zoo in South Africa.