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 (06-21-2019, 02:56 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: Did poachers poison the carcasses of 3 elephants to kill 537 vultures (468 white-backed vultures, 17 white-headed vultures, 28 hooded vultures, all critically endangered, and 14 lappet-faced vultures and 10 cape vultures, also endangered) and 2 tawny eagles in northern Botswana, because vultures help rangers to track poaching activity by circling in the sky where there are dead animals? It's not as severe as what happened to the vultures in Southern Africa, but in a scene that would resemble a horror movie, primary school children got traumatised after seeing about 60 corella birds (a kind of cockatoo) in Adelaide, South Australia, dying after "falling from the sky", in a suspected case of poisoning. At least 57 of the birds were long-billed corellas (a protected species), and a few of them were short-billed corellas (unprotected). Hopefully, they can trace who did this after doing a report on toxicology, which may nevertheless take several weeks to complete, because in Australia, people are required to register if they purchase poisons, according to Sarah King, founder of Casper's Bird Rescue, who witnessed the horrific deaths, and also said that the type of poison was a slow one that takes several weeks to work. It is also worth mentioning that the local Alexandrina council had called for short-billed corellas to be culled for damaging crops and chewing on street lights, damaging built infrastructure such as buildings and sporting equipment, and displacing other native species of birds and bees, possums and others: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/worl...712998001/, https://www.newsweek.com/dozens-birds-sk...ie-1448934, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48960065, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/j...-poisoning Warning – distressing content: https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSAdelaide/v...713938011/ Getty Images:  *This image is copyright of its original author
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