One of Africa's largest wildlife preserves marks a year without a single elephant found killed by poachers.
In this photo supplied by Wildlife Conservation Society elephants drink water at a watering hole near Mbamba Village, in the Niassa game reserve, in an area larger than Switzerland it is one of Africa's largest wildlife preserves in Mozambique, Sept. 26, 2016.
Monitoring of the vast reserve with aerial surveys and foot patrols remains incomplete and relies on sampling, however. And despite the sign of progress, it could take many years for Niassa’s elephant population to rebuild to its former levels even if poaching is kept under control. “It is a remarkable achievement,” James Bampton, country director with the Wildlife Conservation Society, told The Associated Press. He said he discovered the year free of poaching deaths while going through data.
Bampton acknowledged that the low number of remaining elephants is also a factor in the decline in poaching. A year ago, heremained in Niassa, though he now says preliminary analysis of data from a survey conducted in October and not yet published indicated that about 4,000 elephants are in the reserve.
The new rapid intervention police force is an elite unit that is better-armed than the reserve’s normal rangers and has “a bit of a reputation of being quite hard,” Bampton said, adding that no “bad incidents” have been reported in Niassa.
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