Cameroon Elephants Suffer Unprecedented Poaching

YAOUNDE (Reuters) – At least half the elephant population in Cameroon’s Bouba N’Djida reserve have been slaughtered because the west African nation sent too few security forces to tackle poachers, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) 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. “WWF is disturbed by reports that the poaching continues unabated,” Natasha Kofoworola Quist, WWF’s representative in the region, said in a statement

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Cameroon Elephants Suffer Unprecedented Poaching