Photo from open source elephants steadily exterminated in south africa poachers. The blame for the highest demand for elephant tusks, existing in Southeast Asia and the Far East. There of them produce medications that supposedly help from a wide variety of diseases. Demand for elephant tusks has especially skyrocketed since 2010, when in Vietnam, a rumor spread that an unusual medicine had completely cured from oncology of one of the local ministers.
Most poachers infiltrate South Africa from neighboring Mozambique, however, in South Africa itself grabs its criminals. This year they arrested over three hundred poachers. Unfortunately, they are all simple. performers. No one has yet been able to attract to responsibility of at least one of the organizers of this highly profitable business.
To fight illegal hunters in South African the reserves are armed to the teeth armed day and night. To protect elephants from the encroachment of poachers, authorities even use unmanned aircraft. True, this turns out to be not enough.
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Great expectations are now placed on a new and very simple way to protect elephants. Instead of catching and shooting poachers, here they began to temporarily euthanize animals and paint them tusks with special pink paint. It’s impossible to wash off the paint – it penetrates the bone forever until the very middle, while It turns out to be completely harmless to elephants. At airports her right away detect scanners. Even if the tusk is crushed to the smallest powder, pink color will give out illegally mined ivory. And already to make crafts and souvenirs from such horns makes no sense at all, since the first policeman to come across such businessmen, immediately collapse the shop and arrest dealers.
In addition, in order to reduce the demand for elephant tusks in them began inject parasiticides – medicines used to combat ticks in cattle. They do not harm elephants, but people cause intense nausea, diarrhea, and stomach pain. So way, a person taking illegally mined elephant tusks, will get a whole bunch of unexpected side effects. So what about a unique cure for cancer from an elephant’s tusk can now forget …
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