Poachers carry out ‘mass killing’ of six elephants in one day in Ethiopia to remove tusks

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>At least six elephants were killed in a single day by poachers in Ethiopia last week&comma; wildlife officials said&comma; the largest such slaughter in memory in the East African nation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>The elephants were killed while they ventured out of the Mago National Park to drink water&comma;<&sol;i>” Ganabul Bulmi&comma; the park’s chief warden&comma; said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>The poachers then removed all the tusks from the elephants&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was a mass killing&period;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">5 elephants poached by armed groups in 1 night in Mago National Park &comma; Lower Omo&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;Ethiopia&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;Ethiopia<&sol;a>&period; Ivory tusks nowhere to be found&period; The impacts of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;COVID19&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;COVID19<&sol;a> on our wildlife and nature conservation efforts are going to felt incredibly hard&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;wildlife&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;wildlife<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;conservation&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;conservation<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;elephants&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;elephants<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;africa&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;africa<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;JKKO2Ufs0r">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;JKKO2Ufs0r<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Greta Francesca Iori &lpar;&commat;TheItaliopian&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;TheItaliopian&sol;status&sol;1267556129112051717&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">June 1&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>We haven’t seen anything like this before&period;<&sol;i>”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Two other elephants might have been killed the same day&comma; May 26&comma; the warden said&comma; and an investigation continues&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>It also has proved difficult to apprehend the perpetrators because the locals who live in the area are armed and were not willing to engage officials&comma;”<&sol;i> Mr Ganabul said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to wildlife officials&comma; Ethiopia had more than 10&comma;000 elephants in the 1970s but poaching and habitat degradation have reduced the number to about 2&comma;500 to 3&comma;000 in recent years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>We don’t think there is organised poaching in Ethiopia&period;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Last year we documented up to 10 elephant killings&comma;<&sol;i>” said Daniel Pawlos&comma; director for trafficking and control at the Wildlife Conservation Authority&comma; a government entity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>But whenever there’s demand&comma; that triggers illegal poaching&period;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What makes the latest poaching different is the high number of elephants killed within a day&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Officials suspect that most elephant tusks and finished products are slipped out of the country to China and Southeast Asian countries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In 2015&comma; Ethiopian officials burned 6&period;1 tons of illegal elephant tusks&comma; ivory trinkets&comma; carvings and various forms of jewellery to discourage poaching and the ivory trade&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Most elephants in Ethiopia live in Babile&comma; Mago and Gambella national parks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e356af1ffa0">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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