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Poachers massacre 68 elephants in Congo park

By Paul Schemm
Published June 13, 2014 5:12pm ET
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Poachers massacre 68 elephants in Congo park
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — One of Africa’s oldest national parks is under attack “from all fronts,” its director said Friday after 68 elephants were slaughtered in two months by poachers, some of whom shot them from helicopters. Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is under constant assault by renegade Congolese soldiers, gunmen […]

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — One of Africa’s oldest national parks is under attack “from all fronts,” its director said Friday after 68 elephants were slaughtered in two months by poachers, some of whom shot them from helicopters.

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