Incidents of elephant poaching in South Africa up 400% since start of the year

South Africa is seeing an increase in the number of elephant poaching incidents. It has zoomed up by nearly 400% since the start of the year while rhino poaching has dropped by 17% in the same period. This indicates that elephant poaching is taking over from rhino poaching.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 23 September 2016.

Officials maintain watch by helicopter over Kruger National searching for elephant carcasses and, trying to stop poachers who hide in the bush and often operate at night. Only 15% of the Kruger national park is open to tourists and the remaining is wild. That is where the poachers have a field day.
Helicopters are used to maintain aerial surveillance because it helped the ground teams in the poaching crackdown. They are assured with the knowledge that they are not alone, there's somebody above them looking after them. A forthcoming wildlife conference to be held in South Africa will discuss ways of saving rhinos and elephants.


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