Elephants in Somalia

What if I told you that there used to be 20 thousand Elephants in Somalia? Imagine Somali school kids visiting the national parks once a year to see adorable baby elephants from up close and in the wild, that’s an experience they would never forget.

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Ivory, worth a lot of money on the market.

Yeah and then those same poachers nearly wiped out the Elephant population in Kenya too. And for what? Just so some guy in East Asia can sprinkle ivory dust on his gus and believe he’ll turn into a dragon in the bedroom?

Such beautiful gentle creatures, all gone. A few years back a single male Elephant ran from the Serengeti to Southern Somalia just to find a female Elephant because he still remembered his childhood there.

:jcoleno: We let them down.
 
There used to be a few of them in the Northern parts of the country as well, but they went extinct in the colonial period.

But the southern ones just moved over the border to Ethiopia and Kenya when the civil war happened. But prior to the civil war i don't think they were as much as 20.000 , there were no more than 4-8.000k of them.

There’s a bunch of articles written in the 1980s and 1990s about this.

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The bulk of ivory/tusks was actually imported from Kenya and Ethiopia not from Somalia. The government would confiscate any ivory/tusks they found.
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You can tell that Kenya was the bigger culprit in the pouching game because the elephant population plummeted from 130,000 in 1973 to fewer than 20,000 in 1989, a tragic loss of 85%.
 
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Morgan, a male bull in his 30s, was fitted with a tracking collar in December in Kenya's coastal Tana River Delta, but in mid-February began an unexpected march northwards to Somalia, reaching the border nearly three weeks later.

His march has excited conservationists who say it shows the elephant remembered ancient routes after decades of absence due to war.

"He obviously had something in his mind about where he's going," said Iain Douglas-Hamilton of Save the Elephants, a conservation organisation that has put tracking collars on hundreds of African elephants.

This elephant tried to reconnect with the land of his ancestors
 

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This is the definition of 'trust me bro' even the author of this article says he couldn't believe such a number and his counterpart had only been 'informed' by who? For all we know he had made it up.

Man there are legitimate articles from the 1990s about the government’s support for the illegal ivory trade.

Don’t make me pull it up.
 

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Morgan, a male bull in his 30s, was fitted with a tracking collar in December in Kenya's coastal Tana River Delta, but in mid-February began an unexpected march northwards to Somalia, reaching the border nearly three weeks later.

His march has excited conservationists who say it shows the elephant remembered ancient routes after decades of absence due to war.

"He obviously had something in his mind about where he's going," said Iain Douglas-Hamilton of Save the Elephants, a conservation organisation that has put tracking collars on hundreds of African elephants.

This elephant tried to reconnect with the land of his ancestors
Al hijrah ila al sumal 😭
 

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Man there are legitimate articles from the 1990s about the government’s support for the illegal ivory trade.

Don’t make me pull it up.
Stop making up bs news due to your tribalism. MSB AUN Ministry of Husbandry had a dedicated zoo for exotic animals in Mogadishu outskirts called (Raranka). He also had an observatory reservation in Hargeisa Yare (Kismayu). They were pillaged by USC and were driven into Boni Forest Kenya.
 

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The elephants got killed off before the war. You can thank Siyaad Barre.

:hornybarre:
And somalis killed off a lot of leopards, rhinos and lions 💀 crazy how abundant in wildlife our southern neighbours are but we killed ours off in the early and mid 19th centruy 💀 It got way worse when we got our hands on muskets :damn:
 

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Morgan, a male bull in his 30s, was fitted with a tracking collar in December in Kenya's coastal Tana River Delta, but in mid-February began an unexpected march northwards to Somalia, reaching the border nearly three weeks later.

His march has excited conservationists who say it shows the elephant remembered ancient routes after decades of absence due to war.

"He obviously had something in his mind about where he's going," said Iain Douglas-Hamilton of Save the Elephants, a conservation organisation that has put tracking collars on hundreds of African elephants.

This elephant tried to reconnect with the land of his ancestors
mooryaanimo was so wild even the animals migrated :snoop:
 

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