People in Nkhotakota have killed an elephant that is believed to have escaped from Nkhotakota National Park.
Information that Malawi24 has gathered indicates that the elephant got stuck in the mud of Chia lagoon in the district.
Malawi24 has established that people took advantage of the elephant’s failure of movement to kill it.
It is yet to be established if it was one of the elephants that have been relocated from Majete Game Reserve and Liwonde Wildlife Park to Nkhotakota National Park by African Parks.
More than 500 elephants have been relocated from natural reserves where the species have been heavily poached to Nkhotakota National Park.
Conservationists feel that moving elephants from Majete and Liwonde Wildlife Parks to Nkhotakota will help restore elephant populations in Malawi and Africa.
African Parks is a non-profit group based in Johannesburg which manages all the three wildlife reserves.
For the elephants to be taken to Nkhotakota, the plans came amid continued decline of elephants in Africa due to massive poaching which happened in order to meet the growing demand for ivory, mostly in parts of Asia.
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Samala mphwanga!
Mmene zaonongera Mbewu kwa anthu a around a game chitanipo kanthu mmene ndinapita kumuzi recently timaopa nkutuluka usiku or kuye da kutali kuopa njovu kazitsekereni kumene ziyenera kukhala
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Investigate before publishing “news”
Chikanavulaza anthu chinathawa mu game
Why kill it though??
30 years imprisonment
If the people of Malawi want the respect of the rest of the world, especially the USA and Western Europe, they should not be killing protected elephants. If Malawi stops receiving aid money and medicines from the USA the entire country of Malawi will collapse in a few months, into total anarchy. There are movements within the USA to halt all aid and all medical aid to countries that continue to massacre elephants, rhinos, lions, and other protected species. Not only that, if banks in African countries are complicit in the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade, or if they work with the Chinese, those banks will be sanctioned. If you think you can survive without US assistance, or EU assistance, then good luck. You are engaging in fantasy. If you think the Chinese will help you in the way that the US or the UK or European nations help, you are crazy. The Chinese are only in Africa to exploit Africa to the max, including all the people, and all the natural resources, including the wildlife. The Chinese despise Africans and only want African resources.
I Thought Nkhotakota Is A Game Reserve?