Grenades, helicopters, and scooping out brains: poachers decimate elephant population in park

Mongabay
By Jeremy HanceJun 15, 2014, 12:29 pm90 pts
Over the last two months, poachers have killed 68 African elephants in Garamba National Park representing around four percent of the population. Poachers have used helicopters, grenades, and chainsaws to undertake their gruesome trade, and, for the first time, the park has recorded that the criminals are…

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