Elephant anarchy descends on Nyalugwe chiefdom

Peter Nyalugwe of the Nyalugwe Chiefdom in eastern Zambia reports as follows:

"The incident of elephants killing last week on unknown date but this month of October 2007. A group of 45 poachers invaded the Nyalugwe hunting block and open area. A report reached me that three elephants were shot from afar in the open area and died near the Chilinga villages where they were found dead

The community rushed to skin out the meat where the three carcasses were. While they were skinning a mob of poachers came and asked about the village scout, Abiya Daka, his whereabouts. Instead the one they were talking to was the same scout. When they left one of the poachers knew him and came back to him but they found him gone into hiding. Abiya Daka was left out for the Nyamaluma training course. The rest of the village scouts are at Nyamaluma in Mfuwe for training.

Meanwhile all the villagers have meat in their homes. The cause of this trouble of poaching is due to hiked hunting licenses and the absence of the village scouts who were taken away for training. The same mob is planning to burn the Kasolo Wildlife Camp which is 5 km away from the Chief's palace.

However investigations must take place immediately and about the ivories we don't know the one who got them.