The Elephant Advocacy League closed a partnership with PAMS Foundation in Tanzania and we will support their anti-poaching activities in Ruaha National Park, the heart of a unique and large ecosystem.

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Photo credits: PAMS Foundation

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The Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Mr Samuel Afari Dartey, made this known at a press briefing on the alarming rate at which wildlife and forest guards were being killed in the country.

Mr Afari expressed worry about the leaders of society who watched people in the community engage in such dreadful acts, knowing the effects on the community.

‘What is extremely worrying is that these attacks take place within communities where opinion leaders and influential individuals are conscious of the effects of these acts on the ecology,’ he said.

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Ivory & wildlife traders and consumers in Asia are DIRECTLY responsible also for this, including the orphans and the widows that are left behind, with no income.

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Dr Salomon Joubert, director of the KNP from 1986 to 1994, said on Monday (29 April) that the elephant population in South Africa’s largest wilderness area was a “huge problem”.

Dr Sam Ferreira, Large Mammal Ecologist for SANParks countered Joubert’s statements by saying that the 2012 elephant census counted 16 700 individuals, well below what SANParks had projected. “In 1994, when Kruger stopped elephant culling, there were about 8000 elephants in the park and the population was growing at 6.5% per annum. That predicted that Kruger should have had 24 500 elephants in 2012,” said Ferreira.

“Elephant population growth has decreased to 3.5%. The bottom line is that across Kruger, SANParks observe indications that the elephant population are stabilizing, but differently in different landscapes,” he added.

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Photo credits: Elephant Advocacy League (Kruger National Park, South Africa)

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In early 1980s South Sudan recorded more than 130,000 elephants but the liberation struggle that lasted for about three decades wiped out almost all of them. Presently in the entire country, apparently just about 3.9 percent of elephants have survived, which constitutes just about 5,000 of 130,000.
The South Sudan Wildlife Conservation Society attributes high demands for elephant tusk in the Asia among the factors that fueled the massive killing of elephants.

Elephants (and other wildlife) did not have protection and became vulnerable to merciless poachers during the long civil wars in the then region of Southern Sudan, until the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005, which gave birth to the independence of South Sudan.

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Photo credits: Gurtong

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The infamous Sudanese poachers are now working in tandem with armed rebels from the group known as Seleka, which now has seized control of the federal government.
At least one notorious poacher has declared himself the local representative for Seleka.

Conservation organizations said it’s currently impossible to estimate how many animals may have been killed because there are currently no patrols going on in the forest to determine where the elephant carcasses may be. Poachers are making greater inroads because of the near-anarchic state that has emerged in many parts of the country since President Francois Bozize was forced from power. Bozize, who himself took control in 2003 after a rebellion, fled into exile as thousands of armed rebels descended upon the capital in late March.

Very bad news indeed for the elephants of C.A.R., already under tremendous pressure.

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Chinese trader in New Zealand thought it would make good investment. He just pleaded guilty to eight charges of trading in endangered species without a permit.

He told police that he knew elephants were being killed for their ivory but thought it would be a good investment because the ivory would increase in value.

We heard similar stories from China. It’s another worrying development of the ivory addiction.

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Photo: Michael Lorentz

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“The life of a poacher was too lonely for me… and leads only to death,” said Lokoloi, aged 25, who spent the past decade as a poacher, killing his first elephant at the age of 15.

Turning poachers into gamekeepers could be very effective and helps protect the wildlife, but with little money in the task and few employment opportunities elsewhere, there is always the temptation to return…

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Tourists across Asia (and now sadly also Africa) should be aware of this awful kind of tourist attraction and choose wisely were to go and put their money.
Besides, the process of capture and training is often extremely cruel and painful, physically and psychologically. Family members are separated, immobilized and subdued through severe emotional and physical abuse. Calves go through hell too, isolated and chained.

We understand that working with elephants is a centuries-old tradition in Asia, nevertheless the Elephant Advocacy League (EAL) opposes the capture and taming of wild elephants for working and tourist/safari camps and for any commercial use.

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The group of mammals wandered into Africa’s Chobe River on the Botswana-Namibia border but became submerged.

So they simply put their trunks out of the water to enable them to breath.

Tourists Kate and Marcus Westberg, both 29 and from Queensland, Australia, photographed the amusing elephant scene.
Photo: KateWestberg/BNPS

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