Photos: African Elephant Slaughter
April 20, 2013
In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo, a team from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) fit a GPS-tracking collar onto a tranquilized 26-year-old male elephant, to monitor migration routes and to help prevent poaching, at the Kimana Wildlife Sanctuary next to Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, near the border with Tanzania. Tanzania, Botswana, the Central African Republic, Chad, Congo and Kenya are suffering from elephant poaching. But Iain Douglas-Hamilton, the founder of the London-based nonprofit Save The Elephants, says he is most worried about Tanzania's because of its huge population - somewhere between 40,000 and 70,000. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ( APTOPIX Kenya Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 photo, a team from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) fits a tranquilized 30-year-old male elephant with a GPS-tracking collar to monitor migration routes and to help prevent poaching, in the Osewan area next to Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, near the border with Tanzania. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ( Kenya Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo, the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, looms in the background as a team from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) prepares to fit elephants with GPS-tracking collars at the Kimana Wildlife Sanctuary next to Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, near the border with Tanzania. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ( Kenya Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 photo, a Maasai boy stands near the skeleton of an elephant killed by poachers outside of Arusha, Tanzania. Demand for ivory in the Far East, particularly China, is fueling elephant deaths in Africa. Poachers across the continent are slaying the giants and cutting out their tusks to earn wages far beyond what legal daily labor provides. (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso) ( Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 photo, a Maasai herder's dog eats the rotting flesh of an elephant killed by poachers as Maasai herders, two Village Game Scouts and Pratik Patel, second right, the owner of the tour company Safari Legacy, watch outside of Arusha, Tanzania. Every week brings new reports of elephant deaths - and the government workers who killed them. Army soldiers, wildlife rangers, local police, customs officials - the government is full of employees complicit in the killings of the nation's top tourism treasure. (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso) ( Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo, a team from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) fit a GPS-tracking collar onto a tranquilized 26-year-old male elephant, to monitor migration routes and to help prevent poaching, at the Kimana Wildlife Sanctuary next to Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, near the border with Tanzania. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ( Kenya Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 photo, a specialist veterinarian from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) readies tranquilizer darts as he and a team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) prepare to fit elephants with GPS-tracking collars to monitor their migration routes and to help prevent poaching, in the Osewan area next to Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, near the border with Tanzania. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ( Kenya Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo, a 26-year-old male elephant falls to the ground after being shot with a tranquilizer at the Kimana Wildlife Sanctuary next to Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, near the border with Tanzania. A team from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is fitting GPS-tracking collars to monitor migration routes and to prevent help poaching. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ( Kenya Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 photo, Pratik Patel, left, the owner of the tour company Safari Legacy, and a member of the Village Game Scouts, a security force made up of villagers trying to protect the animals on their community land, stand near an elephant killed by poachers outside Arusha, Tanzania. "Twenty-four elephants were shot within 10 square miles over the last three months. Thirty miles from here there are another 26 carcasses just outside Tarangire National Park," said Patel. "And this is just a teaser. If we go to southern Tanzania I can show you 70 carcasses in one day." (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso) ( Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 photo, two members of the Village Game Scouts, a security force made up of villagers trying to protect the animals on their community land, examine the skull of an elephant killed by poachers outside of Arusha, Tanzania. Every week brings new reports of elephant deaths - and the government workers who killed them. Army soldiers, wildlife rangers, local police, customs officials - the government is full of employees complicit in the killings of the nation's top tourism treasure. (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso) ( Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 photo, a Maasai boy and his dog stand near the skeleton of an elephant killed by poachers outside of Arusha, Tanzania. (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso) ( Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo, Dr. Jeremiah Poghon walks with his tranquilizer gun as he and a team from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) track an elephant to fit it with a GPS-tracking collar to monitor migration routes and to help prevent poaching, at the Kimana Wildlife Sanctuary next to Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, near the border with Tanzania. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ( Kenya Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo, a specialist veterinarian from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) readies two tranquilizer darts at the Kimana Wildlife Sanctuary next to Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, near the border with Tanzania, as he and a team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) prepare to fit elephants with GPS-tracking collars to monitor their migration routes and to help prevent poaching. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ( Kenya Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo, a member of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), feels the weight of an elephant GPS-tracking collar as he and a team from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) prepare to fit them to elephants to monitor their migration routes and to help prevent poaching, at the Kimana Wildlife Sanctuary next to Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, near the border with Tanzania. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ( Kenya Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo, Dr. Jeremiah Poghon readies his tranquilizer gun as he and a team from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) prepare to fit elephants with GPS-tracking collars to monitor their migration routes and to help prevent poaching, at the Kimana Wildlife Sanctuary next to Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, near the border with Tanzania. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ( Kenya Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
In this Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 photo, a 30-year-old male elephant just fitted with a GPS-tracking collar by a team from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to monitor migration routes and to help prevent poaching, stands up after the tranquilizer wears off, in the Osewan area next to Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, near the border with Tanzania. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ( Kenya Tanzania Elephant Slaughter )
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