Elephants dying in Botswana.

[glazbagun]

Hundreds of elephants have died in Botswana, cause unknown but not thought to be poaching:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-53257512

Bit of a mystery and not a happy one when you're trying to conserve a species.

[anonymous-user]

Lots of things don’t matter any more now due to Covid.
Rioting is a pastime, plastic pollution is through the roof, Endangered species being killled wholesale etc

The list goes on.

[anonymous-user]

That's awful and very strange.

[PulsatingStar]

I seem to remember a story very similar to this a couple of years ago?

[wc98]

if it's anthrax the timing seems a bit out of kilter with previous outbreaks elsewhere. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Culture---conf... although further reading suggests that a lot of the carcasses have only recently been discovered after they started looking further afield once the problem became known.

[Dagnir]

heartbreaking

[leef44]

Dagnir said:

heartbreaking

+1

[anonymous-user]

Dagnir said:

heartbreaking

Hopefully peaceful

[Turn7]

leef44 said:

Dagnir said:

heartbreaking

+1

Indeed...

Mankind wont rest until they have destroyed all natural life habitats in the name of the Dollar Im afraid.....

[HTP99]

leef44 said:

Dagnir said:

heartbreaking

+1

Yep, spent a day with rescue elephants in Thailand in 2017, it was the end of the season and only 5 of us were visiting, for such a huge and imposing animal they were so gentle, it was such a fantastic experience that both myself and the wife will never forget, such an awesome animal.