….. like shooting, poaching! Poisoning …. a very cowardly way. Remember … extinct means forever!!
Poisons and Poaching: A Deadly Mix Requiring Urgent Action – News Watch.
Posted by Darcy Ogada of The Peregrine Fund in Explorers Journal on August 17, 2014
Darcy Ogada has studied the animals of Africa for a long time, but this might be the worst of times yet. She is fighting to document and put a stop to a new form of hunting and poaching: poisoning. The poisons make for easy money in selling animal parts to eastern Asian markets, but they have tragic consequences for any other animals that disturb the corpses of elephants and rhinos.
Last Sunday, two elephants silently succumbed to poisoning outside Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park in Zambia. In mid-July, four jumbos were poisoned in Zambezi National Park, Zimbabwe when their salt lick was laced with cyanide. This was reminiscent of the decimation of 103 elephants through cyanide poisoning in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe in October…
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