News from the front (war on poaching).
Originally posted on strange behaviors:
A game guard points out where the poacher’s bullit killed this young elephant.
This is a hard photograph to look at, but it’s what ivory poachers do, and what we are complicit in when we buy ivory objects.
It’s from a poaching incident in Mozambique, where a survey is about to begin to determine how many elephants still survive there. You need to know how many there are in order to protect them and keep stuff like this from happening. Here’s the press release:
Great Elephant Survey To Commence in Mozambique
Hard Data Needed to Better Address Elephant Poaching Crisis
Maputo, Mozambique, Sept. 26, 2014 –The Wildlife Conservation Society is partnering with the government of Mozambique, Paul G. Allen, and USAID to conduct a national elephant survey to collect data essential to protecting Mozambique’s highly threatened and diminishing savannah elephant population.
The survey is a part of the Great Elephant…
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