Poachers Kill 200 Elephants in Cameroon Park - graphic photo warning

[joeybee12]

At least half the elephants in Cameroon's Bouba N'Djida reserve were slaughtered because the west African nation sent too few security forces to tackle poachers, the World Wide Fund for Nature said on Thursday.

In what was described as one of the worst poaching massacres in decades, as many as 200 elephants have been killed for their tusks since January by poachers on horseback from Chad and Sudan, the fund said.

"WWF is disturbed by reports that the poaching continues unabated," Natasha Kofoworola Quist, WWF's representative in the region, said in a statement.

It was the second major elephant-poaching report out of Africa this month. On March 5, the warden at Virunga National Park, a U.N. World Heritage Site in the Democratic Republic of Congo, said poaching had become so severe that rangers began using bloodhounds to track down poachers. The Virunga elephant population has fallen to fewer than 400 from an estimated 3,000 in the 1980s.

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/15/10707625-report-poachers-slaughter-half-the-elephant-population-in-cameroon-park

Absolutely sickening..disgusting...

[life long demo]

1. This is so disgusting. From the picture it looks like that is a dead baby

elephant at the feet of the adult. I have to say again, this is so disgusting.

[joeybee12]

2. It's hard to tell...then again, if they didn't kill

the baby, they might as well have since it would probably die because it's entire family has been butchered.

[ellenfl]

3. is that matt rmoney looking for tails? eom

[jsmirman]

4. Horrifying

Maddening

[ellisonz]

5. 1. Thing we could better spend $$$ on than oil company subsidies: environmental conservation.

[guardian]

6. Terrible. Just terrible.

Hopefully more countries will ban ivory products so these beautiful creatures won't be killed.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

8. Agree, but many countries have banned Ivory.

The black market for potions and aphrodisiacs is fueled by arrogant and ignorant demand. Education, harsh penalties for end users, and more boots on the ground are whats needed. (Kind of like the war on drugs, only this time for a worthwhile purpose.)

Couldn't even look at the picture.

[Safetykitten]

7. I always miss the good hunts.....Donald Trump the Younger.