Wild animals kill 95 people in Mozambique in 2016

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Wild animals kill 95 people in Mozambique in 2016

6:25 CAT | 28 Aug 2017

Fie photo ( Crocoiles took the most victims

At least 95 people died in 2016 following attacks by wild animals in Mozambique, according to Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development (MITADER) figures released on Friday.

Crocodiles took the most victims (43), followed by elephant (10) and hippopotamus (7), according to a report quoted by the Mozambican Information Agency (AIM).

There were ten more attacks in 2016 than in the previous year, with the banks of the Zambezi river in the centre of the country registering the highest number of occurrences.

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MITADER’s mid-term review of the 2015-2019 five-year period includes other records, such as the monitoring of sea turtles in the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve in the extreme south of the country, with 1,628 of the species counted.

In Bazaruto National Park, Inhambane province, 15 turtles’ nests with 1,490 eggs were identified, of which 1,194 hatched.

The document concludes that there is a “healthy animal population” including 443 elephants and 18,620 buffalo in the Gilé and Marromeu national reserves in the centre of the country.

According to animal counts in the country’s major river basins, there are an estimated 8,000 hippopotamuses, mostly on the Zambezi River.

An elephant count is planned for 2018.

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