FYI -- Burkina Faso is a Country situated in Sub Saharan Western Africa.
This is an interesting story on Burkina Faso's Elephants. However, I would like to inform Readers that much has changed in Burkina Faso since this article was published.
Around 400 Elephants or more were poached in Burkina Faso in 2015 and 2016.
But for the moment. Let's enjoy reading the article on the way things were in Burkina Faso prior to the arrival of Elephant Poachers in that country in recent years.
When Frank Alain Kabore—the manager of a wildlife concession in Burkina Faso—looks back, he recalls that days used to go by without him seeing an elephant in the reserve.
Today, he comes across one every 100 metres.
“There used to be a lot of poaching of elephants ... Today, if you travel my ranch’s 90km of trails, you can see at least 10 herds of them.”
Kabore’s experience is a microcosm of an environmental success story in this West African Country that may yet return to haunt it.
Towards the end of the 1980s, poachers were causing Burkina Faso’s elephants to disappear at an alarming rate. This prompted the government to declare elephants an endangered species and outlaw hunting of them.
When the government sounded the alarm about poaching at the end of the 1980s, official estimates put the number of elephants living in Burkina Faso at 350.
A recent study conducted by the government showed that there are now more than 4500 elephants in the east of the country, many of which have migrated from Ghana, Benin and Nigeria.
About 400 elephants are thought to inhabit Western Burkina Faso.
Credits : Mail and Guardian
Pride and Concern For Burkina Faso's Elephants June 2, 2004
This is an interesting story on Burkina Faso's Elephants. However, I would like to inform Readers that much has changed in Burkina Faso since this article was published.
Around 400 Elephants or more were poached in Burkina Faso in 2015 and 2016.
But for the moment. Let's enjoy reading the article on the way things were in Burkina Faso prior to the arrival of Elephant Poachers in that country in recent years.
When Frank Alain Kabore—the manager of a wildlife concession in Burkina Faso—looks back, he recalls that days used to go by without him seeing an elephant in the reserve.
Today, he comes across one every 100 metres.
“There used to be a lot of poaching of elephants ... Today, if you travel my ranch’s 90km of trails, you can see at least 10 herds of them.”
Kabore’s experience is a microcosm of an environmental success story in this West African Country that may yet return to haunt it.
Towards the end of the 1980s, poachers were causing Burkina Faso’s elephants to disappear at an alarming rate. This prompted the government to declare elephants an endangered species and outlaw hunting of them.
When the government sounded the alarm about poaching at the end of the 1980s, official estimates put the number of elephants living in Burkina Faso at 350.
A recent study conducted by the government showed that there are now more than 4500 elephants in the east of the country, many of which have migrated from Ghana, Benin and Nigeria.
About 400 elephants are thought to inhabit Western Burkina Faso.
Credits : Mail and Guardian
Pride and Concern For Burkina Faso's Elephants June 2, 2004
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