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In a scene of inconceivable horror, these slaughtered elephant carcasses show the barbaric lengths poachers will go to in their hunt for nature's grim booty.
The bodies were among a herd of 22 animals massacred in a helicopter-borne attack by professionals who swooped over their quarry.
The scene beneath the rotor blades would have been chilling - panicked mothers shielding their young, hair-raising screeches and a mad scramble through the blood-stained bush as bullets rained down from the sky.
When the shooting was over, all of the herd lay dead, one of the worst such killings in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in living memory.
'It's been a long time since we've seen something like this,' said Dr Tshibasu Muamba, head of international cooperation for the Congolese state conservation agency, ICCN, as he surveyed the macarbre scene at Garamba National Park.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134696/Scene-unimaginable-horror-helicopter-borne-poachers-massacre-22-elephants.html
Evasporque
(2,133 posts)nt
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)Hideous, horrible, hellish, heinous....
ladjf
(17,320 posts)over there. nt
Booster
(10,021 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)UTUSN
(70,711 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)flvegan
(64,409 posts)I wonder.
Be thankful I'm not a very, very wealthy man.