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At least five elephants were killed last week in southern Chad by poachers who seized their tusks, according to the authorities and the Chadian NGO SOS Elephants, which is alarmed on Tuesday by a “sudden resumption” of these acts.
There are fewer than 1,500 pachyderms left in Chad in 2023 compared to tens of thousands 30 years ago, and the last known killings for their ivory date back to 2017, worries the NGO in a press release.
“At least five elephants were killed last week by poachers” in the area of Beinamar, capital of the Dodjé department, 400 km south of the capital N’Djamena, assured AFP Adam Ahmat Assane, secretary general of SOS Elephants.
“Elephants have been killed but their number has not yet been communicated to me, our forces are tracking down the poachers who killed them,” the deputy director general of the forest resources administration, Wildlife and Fisheries, Hamid Mahamat Hissein Itno confirmed to AFP.
