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Elephant Herds Found
Topic Started: May 29 2007, 11:54 PM (20 Views)
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Elephant Herds Found on Isolated South Sudan Island
May 28, 2007 — By Skye Wheeler, Reuters

JUBA, Sudan -- International wildlife experts have located hundreds of wild elephants on a treeless island in the swamps of south Sudan, where they apparently avoided unchecked hunting during more than 20 years of war.

"We flew out of a cloud, and there they were. It was like something out of Jurassic Park," said Tom Catterson, working on a U.S.-funded environment programme in south Sudan.

Environmentalists are keeping the location of the island in the Sudd area secret to prevent poachers from killing the animals.

Sudan's north-south civil war caused massive displacement of animals as well as people into neighbouring countries, according to southern environment ministry official Victor Wurda la Tombe.

The conflict ended with a 2005 peace agreement that gave the south semi-autonomous status, but experts say game hunting is still unchecked in a region filled with guns despite a five-year ban on hunting to allow wildlife to replenish.

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I wish they hadn't even reported this. Leave them in peace.

Now all those nasty poachers will be out hunting for the island.
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