Botswana investigates deaths of 275 elephants

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Botswana says it is investigating a staggeringly high number of elephant carcasses found in the popular Okavango Delta area in recent weeks.

Botswana says it is investigating a staggeringly high number of elephant carcasses — 275 — found in the popular Okavango Delta area of the southern African nation in recent weeks.

The Department of Wildlife and National Parks said it is mobilizing human personnel and aircraft to better understand the “mysterious deaths.” Samples have been collected for analysis at labs in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Canada, and anthrax has been ruled out as the cause. “We have no reason to dispute the numbers reported, and we are continuing to verify reports,” Lucas Taolo, the department’s acting director, said.but also has been ruled out as the cause of the deaths.This is “one of the biggest disasters to impact elephants this century, and right in the middle of one of Africa’s top tourism destinations,” the director of conservation group National Park Rescue, Mark Hiley, said in an email.

“Elephants began dying in huge numbers in early May, and the government would normally respond within days to an event of this scale. Yet here we are, months later, with no testing completed and with no more information than we had at the start.”

 

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IngrahamAngle So sad! Cause of death, CNN NEWS.

at first glance it looks like theres no water and they died od dehydration

IngrahamAngle What a shame how disgusting. Why have the park people had their weapons pulled?How stupid is that. Where are the dogs ?

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IngrahamAngle The Department of Wildlife and National Parks said it is mobilizing human personnel and aircraft to better understand the “mysterious deaths.” Samples have been collected for analysis at labs in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Canada, and anthrax has been ruled out as the cause.

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No! So sad 💔💔

IngrahamAngle Looks like the thuggish globalists are after Botswana now, one of the few well run countries in Africa. God help them. Botswana is one of the few shining examples of a decently run country based on Western principles, no doubt it's in the crosshairs.

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IngrahamAngle Ugh anyone see the comment by the guy who is from Botswana saying this isn’t true at all?

IngrahamAngle This is so horrific. Elephants are beautiful & a bright light in this world 💔😢😔

Let me guess, Some how it’s all Trumps Fault

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IngrahamAngle Wow. That’s sad

IngrahamAngle Tragic!

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IngrahamAngle This senseless bullshit has to stop.. there's a difference between killing for food and just plain stupidity 😒

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IngrahamAngle Poaching folks. Not hunting hunters pay the land owners so they can in turn hunt down these sick ass SOB's.

Murderous people suck.

IngrahamAngle Only 87 stripped of their tusks, probably after death. Starvation a likely cause I would have thought.

IngrahamAngle Now this is sad. Perhaps the energy of these anarchists could focus on saving these beautiful animals instead of destroying America.

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Country with the lawlessness Democrats want for America? Foreign enemies now control democrat party?

Cnn said 360 who's lying?

What exactly is this article about?I am from Botswana, I can proudly say there’s no truth from this article,no truth whatsoever from this & we are not investigating anything of that matter,kindly stop feeding people wrong information about our country like we won’t ever find out!

Heartbreaking.

This happened in the middle of a touristic area. I wonder if they can contract COVID-19?

Poor beautiful animals 🥺🥺

activists rn

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