87 Elephants Killed for Ivory Near Botswana Sanctuary

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By Lorraine ChowSep 4, 2018, 12:37 pm306 pts
At least 87 elephants were killed for their tusks near the Okavango Delta wildlife sanctuary in Botswana—the largest scale of poaching deaths ever seen in Africa, according to conservation nonprofit Elephants Without Borders. They "discovered the alarming rate while flying the Botswana government aerial…

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