terrible
without clicking on the link, what is the motivation for such an attack?
In this case, meat from the elephant that was poached as the tusks were recovered by rangers from the scene. That in itself is ‘‘understandable’’ as there is very large and very poor community living right on the borders of many of our reserves that are in extreme poverty and not everyone there can go into the local supermarket and buy groceries.
It’s a 5 ton animal and when they had taken what they could, they laced the carcass with poison to kill the vultures who would naturally be gathering in their hundreds, an act of sheer spite. Poachers will say that vultures draw attention to kill sites and might draw ranger activity but that’s all balls because rangers are not going to investigate every time they see vultures circling, it’s a still a vast area and predation kills would still be the cause of a feeding event in the majority of cases. It literally boils down to spite and a lack of education.
The loss of hundreds of vultures in a critically endangered species is devastating as they play a key role in the ecology of the system.
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Not really. This is a thought which potentially furthers genocide. No need for that.
@wyld.at.hrt is right: education is the key.
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