https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/f/nonclinical-discussions/3260/poaching-in-africa I have a small website for x-pats and zimbos. One of the members who passed on from cancer not long ago put up a series of articles on animals and nature and l thought l would put some of them up here. The author, Tony Seward, stated in a conversationen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/29807?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:08:29 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:0f1b3261-c447-4cc4-8faa-3c4f22da8c8aShane<p>That is the sad story of Africa. I had been on deployment on one of South Africa&#39;s borders when a poacher had been shot in an Elephant Park next to our base as he was caught poaching and tried to shoot back.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/29748?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:36:11 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:510b5c1c-a061-462d-a971-777380805542hissycat<p><img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/emotion-6.gif" alt="Sad" />&nbsp;&nbsp; thats a very sad story. I have been to africa twice and the giraffes seem so peaceful. It does make you angry that animals should suffer in this way but then I suppose you have to look at the other side of the story, if the local people see none of the profits from tourism etc.&nbsp; they may see no other choice. Talking to some rangers on my last trip they were saying that there is a no tolerance policy now and they shoot first, ask questions later!&nbsp;&nbsp; people must have to be pretty desperate to risk death to poach these animals. </p><div style="clear:both;"></div>