Originally posted on strange behaviors:
From the ivory black market in Okahandja, Namibia (Photo: Shi Yi)
This story is dismaying for me, as I have often written about Namibia as a model of smart conservation and anti-poaching common sense. But no place is safe in the current war on wildlife. Or, let’s call it what it is –China’s continuing war on wildlife.
Here’s the reporting by Shi Yi, a Chinese investigative journalist working in southern Africa:
It was a quiet evening in Zambezi, until a herdsman heard a gunshot in the wilderness. By the time the police arrived, they found an elephant carcass – and the tusks had been taken.
“It could be a good trophy animal. Poachers never take small ones,” said chief control warden Morgan Saisai at the Katima Mulilo office of Namibia’s Ministry of Tourism and Environment (MET).
The carcass brought the number of elephants poached in Zambezi, [a region until recently…
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