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Beringia

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Sat Nov 9, 2019, 01:22 AM Nov 2019

At least 105 elephants have died in Zimbabwe's wildlife reserves in Sep and Oct


https://www.stltoday.com/news/severe-drought-killing-elephants-other-wildlife-in-africa/article_e14ef20f-dca6-52e8-bcf5-1d816270d261.html


Elephants, zebras, hippos, impalas, buffaloes and many other wildlife are stressed by lack of food and water in Zimbabwe's Mana Pools National Park, whose very name comes from the four pools of water normally filled by the flooding Zambezi River each rainy season, and where wildlife traditionally drink. The word "mana" means four in the Shona language.

At least 105 elephants have died in Zimbabwe's wildlife reserves, most of them in Mana and the larger Hwange National Park in the past two months, according to the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority. Many desperate animals are straying from Zimbabwe's parks into nearby communities in search of food and water.

Seasonal rains are expected soon, but parks officials and wildlife lovers, fearing that too many animals will die before then, are bringing in food to help the distressed animals. The extremely harsh conditions persuaded park authorities to abandon their usual policy of not intervening.







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