Satao II, one of the last “giant tusker” elephants, killed in Kenya by poachers
Desdemona Despair
By Caroline Mortimer
7 March 2017(Independent) – One of Kenya’s last tusker elephants has been killed by poachers, conservationists have said.
Satao II’s body was found during a routine aerial reconnaissance by the Kenyan Wildlife Service (KWS) near the Voi river in Tsavo East National Park, according to the Tsavo Trust, a non profit conservation group which helps manage the park.
While the cause of death is unknown, the trust said it was “believed to be from poisoned arrow”.
Named after a famous tusker elephant killed in the same area in 2014, it is thought Satao II was feeding near the boundary of the park when he died in January, but poachers had not had time to retrieve his ivory before he was found.
The trust said this is a known “hotspot” for poachers using poisoned arrows and three other freshly poached elephants were found in the same area in early January as well.
Tusker elephants, so-called because they have tusks weighing more than 45kg, are particularly desirable to poachers because they produce so much ivory meaning they are critically endangered.
There are approximately only 21 left in east, central, and southern Africa and of these 10 live in parks controlled by the Tsavo Trust with a further 16 elephants set to potentially grow tusks long enough to qualify in the next years.
KWS agents worked with rangers from the trust to track the gang leading to a raid shortly after Satao II was found, when two poachers were arrested and an AK47, 12 poisoned arrows and three bows. [more]
Satao II: One of Africa’s last giant tusker elephants is killed ‘with poison arrow’ in Kenya
Source: http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/03/satao-ii-one-of-last-giant-tusker.html
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