Forty Zimbabwean elephants slaughtered; minister blames ‘American policies’ Rangers in Zimbabwe’s Hwange...

Forty Zimbabwean elephants slaughtered; minister blames ‘American policies’

Rangers in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park found the dismembered bodies of 26 elephants on Tuesday, raising the tally of elephants poached in the African nation over the past month to at least 40.

Like 14 elephants discovered dead and stripped of their tusks last week, 11 of them also in Hwange, the animals found Tuesday had been poisoned with cyanide.

“Any person with wildlife at heart would be worried about the method with which these poachers are killing wildlife,” Caroline Washaya-Moyo, a spokeswoman for Zimbabwe’s Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, told The Washington Post.... http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/15/forty-zimbabwean-elephants-slaughtered-minister-blames-american-policies/