Botswana: Questions Remain Over Botswana's Mass Elephant Deaths

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Botswana: Questions Remain Over Botswana's Mass Elephant Deaths

[IPS] Bratislava -- When hundreds of elephants died in the space of a few months in Botswana earlier this year, conservationists were shocked. Wildlife experts said it was one of the largest elephant mortality events in history.

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