African Big Game Poaching Surges on Asian Affluence

By Jonny Hogg and Ed Stoddard KINSHASA/KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa (Reuters) – The hit job was done by professionals who swooped over their quarry in a helicopter before opening fire. The scene beneath the rotor blades would have been chilling: panicked mothers shielding their young, hair-raising screeches and a mad scramble through the blood-stained bush as bullets rained down from the sky. When the shooting was over, 22 elephants lay dead, one of the worst such killings in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in living memory

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African Big Game Poaching Surges on Asian Affluence