Elephant slaughter is occurring in Cameroon — nearly 500 have been killed by poachers in the last two months. Officials found 480 carcasses in Bouba Ndjida National Park in the northern part of the country, but they caution that there could be many more victims of ivory hunting, as the park is a massive 540,000 acres. The tusks are poached and sent to Asia, and officials blame “dozens of Sudanese and Chadian poachers armed with machine guns and operating in gangs on horseback. Via AFP.

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