Trans-frontier poaching decimating elephant herds in Camaroon

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  Poachers, believed to be armed groups from Chad and Sudan, have been blamed for an unprecedented spate of elephant deaths in Bouba Ndjida national park in Cameroon. The demand for ivory in Asia is thought to be the reason for more than 200 elephants being killed within the park in a six-week period.
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  As a result of this outbreak of poaching by heavily armed gangs, the elephant population within Bouba Ndjida national park in the far north of Cameroon has now been severely depleted
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  “We are talking about a very serious case of trans-frontier poaching, involving well-armed poachers with modern weapons from Sudan and Chad who are decimating this wildlife species to make quick money from the international ivory trade,” says Gambo Haman, governor of Cameroon’s northern region.
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  Read more: http://blog.arkive.org/2012/02/elephant-slaughter-in-cameroon/
  http://www.theprovince.com/news/Cameroon+elephants+slaughtered+hundreds/6175134/story.html

  
  http://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/en/news/blog/shark-finning-fines-add-to-spotlight-on-taiwa/blog/39109/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gpnzblog+%28Greenpeace+New+Zealand+Weblog%29

 

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