Elephant Poaching In Africa
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Elephant Who Survived Being Shot Five Times By Poachers Dies In Drought
A mother of seven calves, Monsoon survived being shot five times during a rampant poaching crisis about a decade ago that sent Africa's wild elephant populations into freefall.
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Nearly 100 Elephants Killed For Ivory In Botswana
Ninety elephant carcasses have been discovered in Botswana with their tusks hacked off, a charity said Tuesday, in what is believed to be one of Africa's worst mass poaching sprees.
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Tech for Tuskers: Protecting Africa's Elephants With Google
As elephant poaching in Africa by organised crime gangs using high-tech equipment rises, those working to stop their extinction in the wild have turned to technology too.
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Elephant Slaughter, Ivory Sales 'Out of Control': Conservationists
The slaughter of Africa's elephants and the illegal trade in ivory in China are "out of control", conservationists said today, with wild elephants potentially disappearing within a generation.
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Study: 20,000 Elephants Poached in Africa in 2013
More than 20,000 elephants were poached last year in Africa where large seizures of smuggled ivory eclipsed those in Asia for the first time, international wildlife regulators said on Friday.
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Namibia Caught in Net of Elephant, Rhino Poaching
The rising tide of elephant and rhino poaching in Africa is spreading to the sparsely-populated vastness of Namibia in the southeast of the continent, latest official figures show.
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Elephants poached by fugitives for survival in Africa
Members of a militia run by fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony are killing elephants across Central Africa to support Kony's struggling group, according to a report by watchdog organizations that are urging the expansion of programs to encourage defections from the Lord's Resistance Army.
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Elephant Who Survived Being Shot Five Times By Poachers Dies In Drought
A mother of seven calves, Monsoon survived being shot five times during a rampant poaching crisis about a decade ago that sent Africa's wild elephant populations into freefall.
-
Nearly 100 Elephants Killed For Ivory In Botswana
Ninety elephant carcasses have been discovered in Botswana with their tusks hacked off, a charity said Tuesday, in what is believed to be one of Africa's worst mass poaching sprees.
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Tech for Tuskers: Protecting Africa's Elephants With Google
As elephant poaching in Africa by organised crime gangs using high-tech equipment rises, those working to stop their extinction in the wild have turned to technology too.
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Elephant Slaughter, Ivory Sales 'Out of Control': Conservationists
The slaughter of Africa's elephants and the illegal trade in ivory in China are "out of control", conservationists said today, with wild elephants potentially disappearing within a generation.
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Study: 20,000 Elephants Poached in Africa in 2013
More than 20,000 elephants were poached last year in Africa where large seizures of smuggled ivory eclipsed those in Asia for the first time, international wildlife regulators said on Friday.
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Namibia Caught in Net of Elephant, Rhino Poaching
The rising tide of elephant and rhino poaching in Africa is spreading to the sparsely-populated vastness of Namibia in the southeast of the continent, latest official figures show.
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Elephants poached by fugitives for survival in Africa
Members of a militia run by fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony are killing elephants across Central Africa to support Kony's struggling group, according to a report by watchdog organizations that are urging the expansion of programs to encourage defections from the Lord's Resistance Army.
