Botswana | Poaching on rise in one of Africa's last strongholds for large elephant populations

In September, conservationists in Botswana discovered 87 dead elephants, their faces hacked off and tusks missing. Poaching, the researchers warned, was on the rise.

The news had international repercussions. Botswana had been one of the last great elephant refuges, largely spared the poaching crisis that has swept through much of Africa over the past decade.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/science/elephants-poaching-botswana.html

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