Nature’s food chain tends to have a knock on effect – remove one part of the puzzle and things can start to become frayed around the edges.
Then there’s what happens when poachers shoot, kill and lace an elephant carcass with poison. Surely that last one seems unnecessary, the poachers had already made off with the tusks so why bring poison into the equation?
As is nature’s way nothing went to waste, resulting in a slew of deaths from animals feeding on the dead elephant. EWN reports:
[Found dead were] 110 white-backed vultures, two male lions and two black back jackals killed by wildlife poisoning.
Kruger National Park Managing Executive Glenn Phillips, said poachers have employed new tactics to their mission.
“It seems poachers have resorted to wildlife poisoning in the national parks and other protected areas in Southern Africa, and we are devastated by these latest mortalities of our wildlife.
“Wildlife poisoning is not only a threat to our biodiversity assets, but a single incident can affect hundreds of species; thus cutting their life short and diminishing their ecological role.”
SANParks’ Reynold Thakhudi also weighed in with this:
“We are quite devastated that this a high number of vultures are affected by this carnage. This single incident can affect hundreds of other species, including the vultures themselves. It is diminishing their ecological role, [such as] breeding and all those other aspects.”
If the relevant authorities ever catch these cretins can we ask that we rope in THIS ELEPHANT from India to enact retribution?
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