'Hundreds' of elephants being poached each year in Botswana: report

The Elephants Without Borders research in the scientific journal"Current Biology" will likely increase pressure on Botswana, which last month sparked sparked controversy by lifting its ban on hunting saying it would help control a booming population that was damaging farmers' livelihoods.

Thursday's report noted a 593 percent increase in fresh elephant carcasses in the north of the country since 2014, with many of these found clustered in five northern"hotspots". "This evidence suggests that ivory poaching on the scale of hundreds of elephants per year has been occurring in northern Botswana since 2017 or possibly earlier," the report said.

EWB last year said it had identified nearly 90 elephants thought to have been poached after an aerial survey, a number that was vigorously contested by the government. The expanded study published on Thursday estimated that some 385 elephants were killed for their tusks between 2017 and 2018, with 156 confirmed as being poached last year alone.

The poaching only started when the hunted ban was put in place

Another sad news 🐘

Very unnecessary.

This poaching problem must be fixed in the Forest, no Court should be involve. Find the poacher and shoot the MF instantly without further stupid Courts delays.

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