In this photo supplied by Wildlife Conservation Society elephants drink water at a watering hole near Mbamba Village, in the Niassa game reserve, in an area larger than Switzerland it is one of Africa's largest wildlife preserves in Mozambique, Sept. 26, 2016.
Monitoring of the vast reserve with aerial surveys and foot patrols remains incomplete and relies on sampling, however. And despite the sign of progress, it could take many years for Niassa’s elephant population to rebuild to its former levels even if poaching is kept under control. “It is a remarkable achievement,” James Bampton, country director with the Wildlife Conservation Society, told The Associated Press. He said he discovered the year free of poaching deaths while going through data.
Bampton acknowledged that the low number of remaining elephants is also a factor in the decline in poaching. A year ago, heremained in Niassa, though he now says preliminary analysis of data from a survey conducted in October and not yet published indicated that about 4,000 elephants are in the reserve.
The new rapid intervention police force is an elite unit that is better-armed than the reserve’s normal rangers and has “a bit of a reputation of being quite hard,” Bampton said, adding that no “bad incidents” have been reported in Niassa.
Thinking of yashar . He has raised awareness of the abuse and torture of this beautiful animal.If you love elephants follow him.
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WoW lets make it Two and so-on! 😍🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏🐘🐘🐘🐘
darren_olivier To think is that Cele ( South African police minister) wants SA private anti-poaching units not to own Semi- auto long rifles .
africaupdates A new York based organisation manages this preserve ! Who owns those elephants now ?Management in establiments have information they can and can not disclose . This new York based whatever owns this reserve ...ooh my Africa .
pxwhittle Wow, I think yashar needs to see this bit of good news!
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Found?
Drones.
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michaelwhudson 💗🐘 yashar
Instead of poachers, now people pay $$ to 'can hunt', so what's the difference? How many elephants were sacrificed for tourism $$ to keep the preserve secure? You're still killing the elephants.
Well done!!
F--k yeah!!!!!! Keep up that record. Please, please, keep it up.
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Don’t tell trump. He and sons will pay to kill an elephant 🐘.
Good news.
Thanks in part to the elephant mills set up to sell baby elephants to wealthy clients and private hunting reserves.
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Phenomenal!
This is so awesome................... Wow
This will change when Trump gets his way, overturning bans on the import of elephant parts into the US.
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Awesome!
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This is Wonderful news.
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yashar
i’m happy for this good news but, umm, maybe you shouldn’t advertise this
Good.
Hey! We could all use some good news!!! Thanks!!!
Awesome! Let’s pray for many more years!!😊
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Yay!!!! There's still hope yet for Humans
Awesome news!
Big win for man kind. We still have some humanity in us.
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yashar
Great news!!!!
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