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Cazadero
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Poaching encounters
#245619 - 13/04/14 12:24 PM

If you've been fortunate to get to Africa then you've likely seen some evidence of poaching. Show your pics here.

Take a good look at this photo from 2012 and tell me what you see. I stood there and took the photo and it still took me a minute or two to realize what I was seeing.

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larcher
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Re: Poaching encounters [Re: Cazadero]
#245821 - 16/04/14 04:35 AM

In CAR I saw slain elephants. Easy to spot them, a gray mass covered with very white vulture's manure.
I didn't have the heart to take pictures of them, especially ele babies,killed for less than one pound of ivory.

Here is the link to the Doli association that I support.

Doli (elephant in Sango language)

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NitroX
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Re: Poaching encounters [Re: Cazadero]
#245829 - 16/04/14 05:18 AM

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If you've been fortunate to get to Africa then you've likely seen some evidence of poaching. Show your pics here.

Take a good look at this photo from 2012 and tell me what you see. I stood there and took the photo and it still took me a minute or two to realize what I was seeing.

The left tusk is still partly in place. Having been sawn off.

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gryphon
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Re: Poaching encounters [Re: NitroX]
#245839 - 16/04/14 06:14 AM

A thumping military sized cracker hole.

Strange that they left the snare there.

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Claydog
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Re: Poaching encounters [Re: gryphon]
#245844 - 16/04/14 07:41 AM

Saw this elephant in the Sengwe area, Zimbabwe that had had an encounter with a snare. If you look it becomes obvious what has happened.

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Cazadero
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Re: Poaching encounters [Re: Claydog]
#245845 - 16/04/14 08:41 AM

Keep looking...

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underlever
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Re: Poaching encounters [Re: Cazadero]
#245883 - 16/04/14 05:39 PM

is that an axe blade broken off in the skull ?

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NitroX
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Re: Poaching encounters [Re: underlever]
#245892 - 16/04/14 08:33 PM

It only had one tusk originally. The right one had been lost before death.

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NitroX
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Re: Poaching encounters [Re: NitroX]
#245893 - 16/04/14 08:34 PM

BTW that skull is VERY small unless the leaves are VERY big. It is a calf's skull.

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Cazadero
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Re: Poaching encounters [Re: NitroX]
#246255 - 23/04/14 01:15 PM

What they told me was the almost perfectly circular "ring" on the face of the skull was where the snare cut into the bone for a long lingering and miserable death.

Whether or not it's true I don't know, but I stare at that picture and I can (unfortunately) see it happening.

It was a small skull, so yes it was calf, which may mean the bone was more pliable/growing and subject to intrusion by a foreign object. The circular ring is too perfect to be made by any other means that I can think of.

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ozhunter
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Re: Poaching encounters [Re: Cazadero]
#252798 - 27/08/14 10:01 PM

Ivory Poaching Is now a big time problem and you will struggle to shoot a big bull now anywhere in eastern Africa.

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