Kenya Hunts Ivory Poachers After Elephant Family Killed bbc.co.uk | 8 January 2013 at 05:18 ET Kenya's Wildlife Service says it is pursuing a gang of poachers they suspect of killing an entire family of 11 elephants. The family was gunned down on Saturday in the single worst incident of ivory poaching recorded in the country. Kenya has recently taken a more aggressive stance against poaching as it tries to combat a surge in demand for ivory from Asia. About 100 elephants are killed each year in Kenya by poachers. Despite a long-standing ban on the international trade, ivory from elephants is often smuggled to Asia for use in ornaments, while rhino horns are used in traditional medicine. Saturday's killings took place in Tsavo National Park, Kenya's largest single continuous ecosystem, which is home to some 13,000 elephants. "It shows the great lengths these criminal cartels are ready to go to get ivory. It's really tragic," Kenya Wildlife Service spokesman Paul Udo told Reuters news agency. He said the poaching gang is believed to be made up of 10 people and was being hunted by rangers on foot and from the air. In a statement, the Wildlife Service said that all the elephant carcasses had bullet wounds. The Kenyan government banned trade in ivory in 1989, and levels of elephant poaching subsequently declined, but there has been a rise in the illegal practice in recent years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20944859 ..... This is indeed the worst incident of ivory poaching that any humanitarian could encounter, as greedy Kenyan poachers shot and killed an entire elephant family. It took place in Tsavo National Park, a home to over 13,000 elephants who should be free to roam in their own designated place without being tracked and killed by greedy poachers for money, to ship ivory to China for ornaments where ivory is in great demand. The United Nations should do something about the wholesale slaughter of animals for profit before our whole animal kingdom goes extinct thru human greed.
.... I hope so too. Scientists are just recently learning much more about the astonishingly intricate love and care elephants have for their young and that they bring up their offspring in such a highly loving and nurturing manner similar to humans. For poachers to deliberately destroy a whole family of elephants for money is so grotesque and for a country to buy elephant tusks for ornaments is equally insensitive to the plight of these gentle animals who care so much about their siblings, relatives and offspring, that humans can learn alot from these beautiful elephants. The fact that 'Money Rules' above any other consideration does not bode well for the humanity that citizens of all countries should feel toward the gift of animals that God gave us to share in our time on Earth.
Poachers poisoning pachyderms... Zimbabwe: Poachers poison 91 elephants Oct 1,`13 -- The stench of rotting elephant carcasses hangs in the air in western Zimbabwe, where wildlife officials say at least 91 elephants were poisoned with cyanide by poachers who hack off the tusks for the lucrative illegal ivory market.
Wonder if the poachers were working for the Queen of Ivory?... Four men killed by poachers in Congo's Garamba National Park Oct. 10, 2015 - The four men leave behind four wives and 14 children among them. See also: Police: 'Queen of Ivory' smuggled 706 elephant tusks Oct. 10, 2015 -- A 66-year-old Chinese woman who has been dubbed the "Queen of Ivory" was arrested in Tanzania on suspicion of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth an estimated $2.5 million.
Cyanide used to kill elephants... Zimbabwe official: 5 arrested for poisoning 11 elephants Oct 7, `15 -- A Zimbabwean wildlife official says five people are in police custody and being questioned over the killing of 11 elephants poisoned by cyanide at Hwange National Park in the west of the country.
Enormity of elephant poaching... World's largest ivory stockpile highlights tragic plight of the elephant 4 April 2016 The worlds largest stockpile of ivory tusks and rhino horn, photographed almost reaching the ceiling of one storage room, highlights the continuing threat of poaching to Africas wildlife.
Nations like Japan and China should pass laws outlawing the sale of things like Powdered Rhino Horn and other ancient medicinal remedies that cause the death of these animals. AA
Conservationists are currently losing the battle against poaching, vultures have always been a very good way for conservationists to find a carcass, but poachers now shoot and poison the carcass of an antelope a week before they hunt a rhino or elephant. 1000 Cape Griffon Vultures were killed at one carcass last year and I think there are now only 5000 left, not hard to work out how many times poachers have to do this to get rid of the nuisance of vultures to their industry.
Some say the African elephant will be extinct in four years. Unimaginable that such an incredible animal will be extinct. The horrendous mutilation of such magnificent animals all so the Asians can carve fat little men on their tusks. This kind of thing makes me homicidal.
The 'Queen of Ivory' standing in front of me while I'm holding a 357 handgun with a laser on it. I would blow her face off, but not before I tortured her. I think an elephant tusk up the ass might work for the torture. Paybacks are hell--(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)!
My post about the torture, etc. of the Queen of Ivory probably wasn't too cool, but animals are my passion--well, I like trees, water, flowers, clouds, and pulsars too--and if I could do those things to her--I would.
I couldn't find a rhino thread, Australia is now going to take some Rhinos to try and prevent their extinction, Africa is losing the fight. South Africa tried to move the rhinos from the Kruger to private game reserves, but poachers seem to have bribed some of the rangers in National Parks and managed to locate the rhinos and kill them. http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/04/23/australia-may-take-african-rhinos
It absolutely SICKENS ME.....to hear about people killing endangered animals for the money made by selling animal body parts like Rhino Horns to the Chinese or Japanese to be used as aphrodisiacs. As a HUNTER myself it is very important to me to have ongoing Wildlife Preservation as nothing is more important to a hunter. In Massachusetts where I live EVERY DIME that is spent of Hunting and Fishing Licenses and Permits goes towards Wildlife Preservation and Management and because of this we now have large populations of deer, bear, beaver, moose, birds of prey, game birds and now MOUNTAIN LIONS have come back to our state. AA
Massachusetts sounds beautiful. When I go to South Africa, I always visit the Anne van Dyk Cheetah Research centre, it's a great way to find out what's going on and the kids also get to pat a cheetah. One year they had a baby rhino in an enclosure, orphaned by poachers he was left alive having to watch poachers butcher his mother. He became lonely and depressed and they had to put a sheep in his enclosure with him, because they didn't have another rhino at the time. He started behaving like a sheep, it was funny, cute.... and really... really sad.
Cheetahs that are accustomed to people and vehicles will always jump up on the hoods or roofs of the vehicles to get a better perspective of the land around them from a higher vantage point. Cheetahs will NEVER attack a full grown person unless they are forced to but they will check out small children for a possible lunch! LOL!! AA - - - Updated - - - OH...and I left you a few links to some pics of Mass. AA
Hong Kong legislature votes to ban all ivory sales... Hong Kong legislature votes to ban all ivory sales Jan. 31, 2018 -- The Hong Kong legislature voted Wednesday to ban all ivory sales by 2021.
Ivory Investigator Found Dead in Kenya... Ivory Investigator Found Dead in Kenya February 05, 2018 - One of the world's top investigators into the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade has been killed.
