GRUESOME TRAGEDY AS ANOTHER ELEPHANT SUCCUMBS TO POACHING

Maasai Mara, Kenya: One by one, big tuskers are taken out of our ecosystem. On Sunday night, gunshots were heard from the forest 7km from the Oloololo gate. Later MC and Mara Elephant Project (MEP) rangers found Heritage, one of the few magnificent bulls in this area with radio collar, shot dead. Heritage lived peacefully in this forest for many years but with increasing poaching pressure there seems to be nowhere that one can call "safe" for elephants.

(photo credit: Marc Goss)

Elephants roam extensively outside the park and protection beyond park boundary is crucial to their survival. Mara Elephant Project needs help in expanding their rapid response unit (patrol car with rangers) to cover greater area outside the reserve but they are donor dependent project and cannot do without your help! Please donate, share and spread the message that elephants need help! STOP THE TRADE!

Rapid Response Unit (Mara Elephant Project)
http://www.crowdrise.com/MaraElephantProject

for paypal:
http://www.escapefoundation.org/donate/

Source: Mara Triangle