Poachers be damned!
Galana Ranch, a Kenyan government owned ranch borders Tsavo East National Park from the east.
Galana Ranch is the biggest in the country and the continent covering 1.5 - 2 million acres depending upon who you ask.
It acts as an important buffer zone for Tsavo East's wildlife and the community.
Today I got a tweet from Paula Kahumbu a Kenyan conservationist, ecologist, CEO of wildlife direct and champion of Kenyan wildlife - http://twitter.com/#!/paulakahumbu that an elephant had been shot and was wounded in Galana..
As I followed her tweets it appeared that the wounded elephant was not the only one shot and at least (2?) others had been shot overnight.
The fate of the wounded one is still unknown as the KWS (Kenya Wildlife Service) vet supported by the Daphne Sheldrik wildlife trust and KWS rangers have not been able to approach him safely and take him into care..
The pictures below are those of a dead elephant, face hacked at, trunk chopped off to get the tusks. It is so sad to see this happen and following Paula's pictures on twitpic and tweets on twitter was a sad affair this afternoon.
(All pic's taken from Paula's twitpic account)
Dead elephant apparently killed by a poison arrow
This one was shot
Visibly saddened by the gruesome find
Hacked face of the first one
Shows bullet whole where the stick is
trunk cut off to get the ivory
All this so some bloke can make dodgy medicine :(
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