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ARE THE BOTSWANA GOVERNMENT POISONING THEIR OWN ELEPHANTS?
THE MYSTERIOUS ELEPHANT KILLER IN BOTSWANA
Experts have warned about a mystery elephant killer which has left herds of elephants in Botswana “decimated”.
Speculation was initially aimed at poachers, but the tusks were not found to be missing from the carcasses and experts suggested that the sudden death was caused by either a disease or a virus. The rate and seemingly mass-graves of elephants is causing dramatic alarm for conservationists and hitting the Botswana economy.
The Elephant deaths began in May 2020 and occurred in the Okavango Delta over the next two months. Botswana is currently a home to a third of African Elephants; with the current population of elephants in a worrying decline.
The “mass graves” of Elephants were first spotted when conservationists took a flight over the delta and then spotted 169 elephant carcasses over the next three hours. A month later the total deaths were at 350.
Despite the African Elephant population being in decline, the rate of deaths since May around this isolated region is totally unprecedented in a single…
