Poachers kill second Kruger elephant

Janine Ryan

In less than two months, a second elephant has been poached for its tusks in Parfuri, northern Kruger National Park as the park celebrated World Ranger Day.

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According to the Conservation Action Trust website, SANParks officials made the gruesome discovery of a two-day- old carcass with its tusks chopped off on Wednesday morning, July 30.

“Elephant poaching has been happening for a while now in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, so we did expect that it would at some stage reach our area,” said SANparks spokesperson William Mabasa.

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