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Poachers kill 100 elephants in Chad-survey
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 30 - 08 - 2006


The remains of 100 African
elephants killed for their tusks have been found in Chad, conservationists said on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
The discovery was made earlier this month by a team led by
Mike Fay, a renowned conservationist and explorer with the Bronx
Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society and National Geographic.
"... his team discovered five separate elephant massacre
sites totalling 100 individuals during a survey made Aug. 3-11
from their small plane," Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
said in a statement.
WCS said most of the animals had their tusks removed and
more than 50 of them appeared to have been slain just days
before the team found their carcasses.
The discoveries were made near Chad's Zakouma National Park,
one of the animal's most northern ranges in central Africa.
"Zakouma is only about 150 miles (240 kms) west of the
conflict area of Darfur and is in the path of recent rebel
activity in Chad, thus security is low and borders are porous in
this isolated region," WCS said.
An expedition in 2005 counted 3,885 elephants in Zakouma but
a year later researchers could find only 3,020.
Wildlife groups say a rise in illicit ivory sales globally
is being driven by new demand from China. Elephants are
especially at risk in lawless or violence-prone regions where
their tusks are a ready source of income.
With the exception of occasional one-off auctions in
southern Africa, there has been a global ban on ivory sales
since 1989, allowing elephant populations in many parts of
Africa to recover.
Sprawling across nearly 1,900 square miles, Zakouma is a
rare refuge for wildlife in central Africa. Within the park's
borders elephants are protected by the Chadian government with
assistance from the European Union.
But WCS said the elephants were vulnerable to poaching in
the wet season when they forage outside the park's borders.


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