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Elephant Tramples Poacher To Death
Animals  (tags: Elephants, Poachers, animals, animalrights, nimalcruelty, wildlife, death )

Lynn
- 8 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A suspected poacher has reportedly been trampled to death by an elephant as he tried to shoot the beast in Zimbabwe. The bloodied remains of Solomon Manjoro were found by rangers after what was thought to be a botched poaching trip at the protected...
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Elephant Poaching 'Rising' in African Republic
Animals  (tags: Elephants, CAR, poaching, African, central, republic, wwfkilling )

Marie
- 26 days ago - m.bbc.co.uk
Poachers are taking advantage of instability in the Central African Republic (CAR)
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Tanzanians See Official Hand in Elephant Poaching
Animals  (tags: wildlife, elephants, suffering, slaughter, killing )

Jill
- 24 days ago - usatoday.com
Pratik Patel gazed glumly as the herder's scrawny brown dogs moved between piles of bones to eat the rotting elephant flesh. He pointed to the nearby road and wondered aloud: How could poachers kill an elephant just 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tanzania'
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Destroy Blood Ivory By Publicly Burning It, and Send a Strong Message as the Leader of This Buddhist Country
Animals  (tags: elephants, ivory, petition )

Teresa
- 27 days ago - avaaz.org
Sri Lanka should be ashamed to add value to this Blood Ivory by gifting it to Buddhist temples as objects to be valued and venerated. As custodians of the greatest philosophy on ahimsa Buddhist monks across the nation should reject this Blood Ivory.
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Elephant Poaching Soars in the Central African Republic Chaos
Animals  (tags: wildlife, elephants, suffering, killing, slaughter, cruelty, conservation, animalrights )

Jill
- 24 days ago - mg.co.za
Poaching in protected wildlife areas has been on the rise in the Central African Republic since the country was plunged into turmoil, say campaigners.
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