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		</div><p>At least six elephants were killed in a single day by poachers in Ethiopia last week, wildlife officials said, the largest such slaughter in memory in the East African nation.</p>
<p>“<i>The elephants were killed while they ventured out of the Mago National Park to drink water,</i>” Ganabul Bulmi, the park’s chief warden, said.</p>
<p>“<i>The poachers then removed all the tusks from the elephants.<br />
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<p><i>“It was a mass killing.</i></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">5 elephants poached by armed groups in 1 night in Mago National Park , Lower Omo, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ethiopia?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ethiopia</a>. Ivory tusks nowhere to be found. The impacts of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> on our wildlife and nature conservation efforts are going to felt incredibly hard. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wildlife?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/conservation?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#conservation</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/elephants?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#elephants</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/africa?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#africa</a> <a href="https://t.co/JKKO2Ufs0r">pic.twitter.com/JKKO2Ufs0r</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Greta Francesca Iori (@TheItaliopian) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheItaliopian/status/1267556129112051717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>“<i>We haven’t seen anything like this before.</i>”</p>
<p>Two other elephants might have been killed the same day, May 26, the warden said, and an investigation continues.</p>
<p>“<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,”</i> Mr Ganabul said.</p>
<p>According to wildlife officials, Ethiopia had more than 10,000 elephants in the 1970s but poaching and habitat degradation have reduced the number to about 2,500 to 3,000 in recent years.</p>
<p>“<i>We don’t think there is organised poaching in Ethiopia.</i></p>
<p><i>“Last year we documented up to 10 elephant killings,</i>” said Daniel Pawlos, director for trafficking and control at the Wildlife Conservation Authority, a government entity.</p>
<p>“<i>But whenever there’s demand, that triggers illegal poaching.</i></p>
<p><i>“What makes the latest poaching different is the high number of elephants killed within a day.”</i></p>
<p>Officials suspect that most elephant tusks and finished products are slipped out of the country to China and Southeast Asian countries.</p>
<p>In 2015, Ethiopian officials burned 6.1 tons of illegal elephant tusks, ivory trinkets, carvings and various forms of jewellery to discourage poaching and the ivory trade.</p>
<p>Most elephants in Ethiopia live in Babile, Mago and Gambella national parks.</p>
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