An apocalyptic day for majestic Elephants

Adonis Diaries

Elephant apocalypse

By Alice Jay

Four elephants are killed an hour — it’s a race against time before we lose these gentle giants forever.

In one day, poachers butchered 600 of them in Cameroon.

Dear friends, Dozens of heavily-armed hunters rode into a national park in Cameroon, butchered over 600 majestic elephants, then hacked off their faces for their tusks. Poachers have annihilated half of central Africa’s last elephants. And no one’s been able to stop them. Until now! Brave investigators have gone undercover in poaching rings in ten African countries, and already more than 2,000 traffickers have been jailed!  It’s awe-inspiring stuff, and it’s won awards, but many funders are wary of going head-to-head with organised crime. We may be the best community to scale this extraordinary operation, fast. Four elephants are killed an hour — it’s a race against time before we lose these gentle giants forever.

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