After months of anxiety and speculation, the Botswana government said on Monday Sudden death of more than 330 elephants Northwest Botswana may have arrived earlier this summer as they drank water contaminated by a toxic blue-green algae. Elephants in the Seronga region of South Africa Died of a neurological disorder …
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GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana’s top wildlife veterinarian on Friday rejected accusations by some conservationists that the government had not moved fast enough to investigate the unexplained deaths of at least 275 elephants. Authorities said Thursday they were still trying to find out what killed the elephants around two months after …
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Officials in Botswana are investigating the mysterious deaths of hundreds of elephants in the Okavango Delta area of the southern African nation in the past three months. The Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, Conservation and Tourism said Thursday that it had verified 275 corpses of the 356 deaths that have …
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GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana is investigating hundreds of unexplained elephant deaths in one of Africa’s top tourist destinations. A dead elephant is seen in this undated brochure image in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, May-June 2020. PHOTOS OBTAINED BY REUTERS / Brochure via REUTERS Botswana is home to a third of …
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GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana is investigating an increasing number of unexplained elephant deaths, having confirmed that 275 had died, compared to 154 two weeks ago, the government said on Thursday. A dead elephant is seen in this undated brochure image in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, May-June 2020. PHOTOS OBTAINED BY …
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