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200 elephants stray from Tanzania national park

By IANS
Published: Published Date - 03:53 PM, Mon - 24 May 21
Ndumbaro said elephants avoided mixing with livestock because they were allergic to chemicals used in treating the livestock. Ndumbaro said elephants avoided mixing with livestock because they were allergic to chemicals used in treating the livestock.

Dar es Salaam: Tanzanian authorities have issued a warning to villages adjacent to the Nyerere National Park saying that at least 200 elephants have strayed.

Damas Ndumbaro, the Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, said the elephants could wreak havoc in villages in Namtumbo and Tunduru districts in southern Tanzania’s Ruvuma region.

“A recent satellite survey has shown that about 200 elephants have strayed from the Nyerere National Park and could cause devastation in the villages,” said Ndumbaro on a visit to six villages that have been raided by the tuskers.

He said the encroachment of wildlife protected areas by livestock keepers was one of the reasons that forced the elephants to stray from their habitats.

Ndumbaro said elephants avoided mixing with livestock because they were allergic to chemicals used in treating the livestock.

Tanzania accounts one of Africa’s most significant remaining elephant populations, the only larger population being found in Botswana, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.

In 1976, numbers in Tanzania stood at 316,000, but major declines in the late 1980s and especially since 2009, driven by an upsurge in the illegal trade in ivory, have decimated the population which today stands at roughly 45,000.

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