Poll of the Day > 10 elephants poisoned with cyanide in Zimbabwe.

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http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/10-elephants-poisoned-with-cyanide-in-zimbabwe-9773039

Nine adult elephants and one calf have been poisoned with cyanide around Zimbabwe’s largest wildlife area, the government’s Hwange National Park.

Four of the poisoned elephants died near the south of the Park and their tusks were taken.

The others, including a mother and her calf were found in two areas further north and may have been poisoned last weekend and the poachers had not yet returned to hack out the tusks from the dead animals

Trevor Lane from the Bhejane Trust, which monitors much wildlife activity in north western Zimbabwe, said early Tuesday that government rangers from the Parks and Wildlife Management Authority were following up.

”Parks went out there quickly and energetically and I am sure they will make progress and produce results as they are very determined. The poachers left buckets with cyanide mixed with salt which have been recovered. We know some vultures will have been poisoned as well, but we are not yet sure how many

"We should expect more poaching this year because people are so poor in this bad economic situation.”

The first case of cyanide poisoning of elephants in Zimbabwe emerged in 2013 and about 100 corpses were found in the south of the park by hunters who took extensive photographs of the dead animals and then helped Parks and Wildlife Management Authority rangers follow up.

Several poachers were arrested and were sentenced up to ten years in jail.

There were several other incidents of cyanide poisoning in that area since then, but Lane and others, such as elephant counter, Colin Gillies said cyanide poisoning had declined in the last year.

“I am very sad to hear about this latest incident. We hoped the cyanide episodes were over,” said Gillies, a leading member of Zimbabwe’s wildlife community who is also an official counter of Zimabwe’s elephant population in the west of the country.

Cyanide is widely used in the gold industry in Zimbabwe where miners use cyanide concentrate to catalyze the separation of pure gold from bulk ores during the chemical purification process.

Cyanide kills the body’s cells by starving them of oxygen. In mammals, the poison is most harmful to the heart and brain—organs that depend heavily on oxygen supplies. Elephants appear to die no more then about 100 m from where they drank poisoned water or used salt licks drenched in cyanide.

Elephants, according to wildlife experts die most painful deaths from cyanide. There are tens of thousands of informal gold miners in Zimbabwe.

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Seriously. Shoot every poacher. On the spot. Fuck them all, the elephants are more important than them.

What's the point here? Going back later and sawing off the tusks?

Questionmarktarius posted...

What's the point here? Going back later and sawing off the tusks?

"Well, they're dead anyway, they don't need those tusks anymore. How's about i buy em off ya? I mean, like I said...they don't need 'em no more."

*shrugs* I don't know what the big plan was, but regardless of what it was, fuck those elephant murderers.

deoxxys posted...

darn

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It's all because of the demand really, either synthetic elephant tusks have to be plentiful enough to flood the supply (and be difficult enough to tell from the real thing) or something else because the seizure of tusks reduces supply and makes them even more valuable for poachers to keep doing.
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streamofthesky posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

What's the point here? Going back later and sawing off the tusks?

"Well, they're dead anyway, they don't need those tusks anymore. How's about i buy em off ya? I mean, like I said...they don't need 'em no more."

*shrugs* I don't know what the big plan was, but regardless of what it was, fuck those elephant murderers.

Murder doesn't apply to animals.
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Why is there still a demand for elephant tusks and rhino horn and shit? Haven't the people who use that garbage figured out it ain't working yet?
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Smarkil posted...

Why is there still a demand for elephant tusks and rhino horn and shit? Haven't the people who use that garbage figured out it ain't working yet?

Because Chinese traditional medicine still insists that absolutely everythijg can give you a boner
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Smarkil posted...

Why is there still a demand for elephant tusks and rhino horn and shit? Haven't the people who use that garbage figured out it ain't working yet?

Certain electronic devices use ivory too.
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Revelation34 posted...

Certain electronic devices use ivory too.

What? I can't think of a single reason ivory would ever be used in electronic devices except for aesthetic reasons. It's not like it has any conductive/capacitive properties.
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It's just fucking elephants.

You peeps are advocating murdering humans for the sake of animals.

You're the real psychopaths here.

Elephants are beautiful creatures and poachers are scum of the Earth.
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streamofthesky posted...

Seriously. Shoot every poacher. On the spot. Fuck them all, the elephants are more important than them.

Agreed.
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Grindcorp9000 posted...

streamofthesky posted...

Seriously. Shoot every poacher. On the spot. Fuck them all, the elephants are more important than them.

Agreed.

you dont just simply know who is a poacher

Also this guy wants to save the Rhino Population and reduce poaching by breeding rhinos and making selling the horns legal
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/12173750/Why-the-worlds-largest-rhino-farmer-is-cutting-off-their-horns.html
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So why is it illegal to harvest ivory from ones that naturally died too? Just happened to read an article about people harvesting from mammoths in Siberia.
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Revelation34 posted...

So why is it illegal to harvest ivory from ones that naturally died too? Just happened to read an article about people harvesting from mammoths in Siberia.

Well in Africa, its not illegal to harvest them its just illegal to sell them. The Rhino Farmer guy doesnt kill them to harvest their horns.
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deoxxys posted...

Revelation34 posted...

So why is it illegal to harvest ivory from ones that naturally died too? Just happened to read an article about people harvesting from mammoths in Siberia.

Well in Africa, its not illegal to harvest them its just illegal to sell them. The Rhino Farmer guy doesnt kill them to harvest their horns.

Maybe it was just in Siberia then or maybe it's the fact those are mammoths.
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