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Satao (c. 1968 – 30 May 2014) was one of Kenya's largest African elephants.He was known as a tusker because his tusks were so long that they almost touched the ground. The Tsavo Trust announced that Satao was killed by poachers using a poisoned arrow on 30 May 2014.
The 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter refers to a series of poaching massacres of African elephants in the vicinity of Zakouma National Park in southeastern Chad. These killings were documented in aerial surveys conducted from May through August 2006 and total at least 100 animals.
The largest poaching incident in Kenya since the ivory trade ban occurred in March 2002, when a family of ten elephants was killed. [8] Illegal elephant deaths decreased between 1990, when the CITES ban was issued, and 1997, when only 34 were illegally killed. [15] Ivory seizures rose dramatically since 2006 with many illegal exports going to ...
The poachers in this incident apparently killed the elephants with cyanide.In addition to beheading the elephants, the poachers escaped the scene with three ivory tusks. The upsetting occurrence ...
A presumed poacher was killed by elephants in 2021 in the same park. Last July, a Spanish tourist was trampled to death by elephants after he left his fiancée in the car to take photos at a ...
In a July 2012 attack by mounted poachers near the SOS Elephants camp in the Chari-Baguirmi Region, 28 elephants were slaughtered and most of their tusks were removed. [7] In another attack in September 2012, about 50 miles (80 km) from the boundaries of the Zakouma National Park, five rangers were killed; one is still missing and presumed dead.
Poachers kill the largest elephants with the largest tusks. This is most often the oldest elephant and, therefore, ... If the old, brainy matriarch is killed, younger herd members will not know ...
Veerappan initially worked as a sandalwood and ivory smuggler, killing elephants for their tusks. [17] He later broke away from his uncle. Over the next 25 years, Veerappan and other poachers together killed 2,000 to 3,000 elephants, with Veerappan and his gang responsible for approximately 500 of them. [5] He was first arrested in 1972. [18]