30 Missing National Park Elephants of Garamba (DRC)

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Digital Congo

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Rough Translation by Microsoft. Thanks to Anne Dillon. 

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The military prosecutor’s office, the Congolese Institute for the conservation of nature (ICCN), and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) are working together to dismantle the networks of poaching in the area. Thirty elephants are missing from the national park of Garamba, located in the territory of Dungu in Orientale Province. The direction of the Park suspect armed groups and active military uniformed men in this region of killing the pachyderms in an interval of forty days. Animals have failed to count between last April and May.

Missing elephants all wore a transmitter to locate the animal by satellite and recover it in case of loss or straying, explained the Garamba national park officials. They listed armed groups like the LRA (Lord’s resistance army) and Congolese or foreign poachers.
The military prosecutor’s office, the Congolese Institute for the conservation of nature (ICCN) and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) are working together to dismantle the networks of poaching in the area.They want to stop the illegal exploitation of natural resources in the national park of Garamba and ensure the protection of the rare species that are there.

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