Poachers kill 11 elephants in Kenya

[Seedersandleechers]

Source: Irish Times

Poachers killed a family of 11 elephants in the biggest single mass shooting of the animals on record in Kenya, wildlife officials said today.

A gang of about 10 attackers hacked off the elephants' tusks in Tsavo East National Park on Saturday, officials said - the latest sign of a resurgence of mostly Asian demand for ivory jewellery and ornaments.

&quot It) shows the great lengths these criminal cartels are ready to go to get ivory. It's really tragic," Kenya Wildlife Service spokesman Paul Udo told Reuters via Twitter.

He said it was the worst single incident of its kind recorded in the East African country. Elephant poaching in Kenya declined sharply after 1989 when the government banned trade in ivory.

Read more: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0107/breaking46.html

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[MotherPetrie]

1. Evil fuckers!!!!!!!

[tawadi]

2. Saw this on huffingtonpost.com

[lunasun]

3. I can not believe this is starting to grow again and worse then ever

Been to Tsavo and this is sad
These poachers are criminals and very dangerous
Global shame the Asian demand that is ordering the kills imo
It may work better than dealing with the criminal$

[Mimosa]

18. Agree that Global shaming may help. n/t

[samsingh]

4. complete fing assholes

[tblue]

5. I've been there. They are so majestic

and proud and protective. This is hideous! I hope the poachers, and whoever is paying them, get caught and damn whoever tries to buy those tusks!

[onehandle]

6. Asia is the third world with high tech.

Seriously. It's as if the dark ages had cell phones and Internet access.

[Jenoch]

7. I recently read a story where some

former poachers in Kenya are now being paid to protect the elephants. The poachers themselves don't earn all that much for the ivory.

[glinda]

8. It will only stop when they totally move them to another Country. Seriously.

[billbailey19448jj]

9. Those poachers are truly evil men

May they get the retribution they richly deserve. I feel so sorry for those poor elephants who had to suffer like that.

[Deep13]

10. a special place in hell....

[ButterflyBlood]

11. India recently legalized allowing forest guards to use deadly force against poachers

With stuff like this it's easy to see why. Scum.

[Posteritatis]

20. I'm quite comfortable with that rule. (nt)

[Recursion]

12. Shoot. Poachers. On. Sight.

[840high]

14. Yes. Yes!

[mokawanis]

13. Heartbreaking and infuriating

I hope they find the assholes who did this and put some heavy punishment on them.

[Franker65]

15. Horrendous

They need to do everything possible to defend these animals. Even introduce a death sentence for anybody found guilty of shooting them.

[Mimosa]

19. ^ Agree with you ^

It would stop the slaughter of these intelligent wonderful animals.

[ZombieHorde]

16. I don't know why, but I really like elephants. nt

[SkyDaddy7]

17. Because they are very intelligent creatures...

Who mourn their dead like we do. This is like hearing of a mass shooting in America to us this will effect other elephants in the area as well. SAD!!

[tabasco]

21. I hate these fuckers with the heat of 1,000 suns

Poachers deserve a painful death.

[and-justice-for-all]

22. I would like to pouch a poucher..nt

[SariesNightly]

23. Kill poachers on sight

n/t

[Undismayed]

24. Anyone else find it funny that..

many people here staunchly oppose deadly force in instances of human victims, but once an animal is involved, go for it! Overwhelming consensus for government sanctioned murder! It's almost as if people are using emotion rather than logic. Humans are funny like that eh?

[Nihil]

25. Yeah, absolutely f*cking hysterical ...

... almost as good as posting a disrupting reply to an OP where a family of 11 elephants
were slaughtered just so that some savages can hack off the tusks for sale to some
other savages ...

[budkin]

26. There is a special place in hell reserved for these scumbags

[closeupready]

27. Historically, megafauna are extinguished wherever people go.

Since the human population continues expanding, I expect - as I have predicted for many years - that most of the megafauna will become extinct. Tigers and Rhinoes are probably going to disappear, sadly.