Wednesday, June 5, 2013

African warlord orders poaching for ivory

"The high price of ivory is increasingly incentivising the involvement of armed groups such as the [Lord’s Resistance Army], sustaining their atrocities in the region." The new report from the Enough Project estimates that elephant population in Garamba national park, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been decimated from around 20,000 in the 1970s to around 1,800 today. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/04/lords-resistance-army-funded-elephant-poaching

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