Wildlife charities have expressed concern at the unexplained deaths of more than 270 elephants across Botswana. The creatures have suddenly collapsed into heaps on the ground since the start of May in the Okavango Panhandle region.
The government is yet to explain what has happened to the animals but has ruled out poaching, as all the carcasses have remained intact.
But National Park Rescue is concerned at what it believes is slow progress. Mark Hiley, co-founder of National Park Rescue, said today: "Elephants began dying in huge numbers in early May and the government would normally respond within days to an event of this scale. "Yet here we are, months later, with no testing completed and with no more information than we had at the
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