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Tusks poached in Niassa Reserve seized
12:15 CAT | 06 Jul 2017
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Police have arrested three citizens found in possession of four elephant tusks on board a minibus travelling to Lichinga in Niassa province’s Majune district.
The tusks are believed to be the fruit of poaching in Niassa National Reserve, where several species of animal are under threat, and are thought to have been destined for a foreign country not specified by the authorities.
Niassa police spokesman Alves Mathe said that additional members of the same gang were being pursued.
The head of the inspection department of the National Administration of Conservation Areas, Carlos Lopes Pereira, told @Verdade that a 2016 census “indicates that in Niassa we continue to lose elephants at an unacceptable rate”.
There was every indication, he said, that “elephants [for example] continue to be slaughtered at a rate that will lead to their extinction”.
Source: A Verdade
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