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Botswana Records Fresh Elephant Deaths

Mqondisi Dube

   GABARONE, BOTSWANA - Wildlife experts in Botswana are doing a flyover
   of the Okavango Delta after the discovery of at least five more
   mysterious elephant deaths. Experts have not ruled out a waterborne
   bacteria that was found to have killed more than 330 elephants last
   year and at first baffled experts.

   Regional Wildlife Coordinator, Dikamatso Ntshebe said his office
   received reports of five dead elephants in the Moremi Game Reserve. The
   reserve is located within the Okavango Delta.

   Ntshebe said the animals were collapsing, knees first. Some carcasses
   are fresh while others are two weeks old. Ntshebe ruled out poaching as
   the elephant's tusks were still intact.

   Also watch: Botswana to Repatriate Elephants to Angola to Reduce
   Overpopulation

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