Today Big Life Foundation has reported the loss of two elephants in Amboseli. One of the elephants was a big bull, one of the last remaining in the Amboseli ecosystem. Big Life reports, “two weeks ago, we had to add two more killed elephants to the board. One was a clear-cut poaching case, another was speared whilst raiding a farmers crop of maize. This was a big bull, one of the last remaining in the ecosystem, and thus critical to the ongoing survival of the population. He could not be identified as the hyenas had chewed away too much of his remains. In both cases, the Ivory was taken, so we have to regard it as poaching and a failure on our part. And in both cases, we were about two weeks late in finding the carcasses, which leaves a cold trail to follow.”
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 03:33:51 +0000