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Tanzanian soldiers now fight poachers

───   08:25 Wed, 22 May 2013

Tanzanian soldiers now fight poachers | News Article
Tanzania is now deploying army personnel and camera-equipped drones in anti-poaching operations.
According to the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute poaching has drastically reduced the elephant population to fewer than 70,000 in 2012 from about 109,000 in 2009.
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Khamis Sued Kagasheki, told parliament that president Jakaya Kikwete has authorised the deployment of army units for anti-poaching operations.
Parliamentarians welcomed the decision.
In 1989 the military was also employed against poachers. This helped the elephant population rebound after it reached a low of about 30,000. Tanzania had about 110,000 elephants in 1976.

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