A belief that their skins can ‘cure’ certain diseases has led to an unprecedented surge in poaching. Elephants, including mothers and calves, are shot with poisonous darts and die slow and gruesome deaths before being skinned.
The result – poaching rates have already surpassed the yearly average with 20 elephants found skinned since the beginning of 2017.
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