Elephant Kills Poacher

Good.  Fricking jerks need to be castrated, their balls shoved down their throats to slowly choke on, strung up on a high pole in the village square until the vultures pick out their eyeballs and livers, and then drawn, quartered, and their carcases dragged through every village within 25 miles.  Ha!  Guess you can tell I'm somewhat passionate on the subject of the slaughter of these magnificent animals for profit -- just to provide powdered ivory for some fat cat Chinese asshole who thinks it will increase his erection.  Send the schmucks Viagra, geez! 

Elephant Tramples Poacher in Zimbabwe

Megan Gannon, News Editor

Date: 13 May 2013 Time: 02:30 PM ET

In a grim karmic twist, a suspected poacher illegally hunting African elephants was trampled to death by his prey, according to news reports.

The bloodied remains of Solomon Manjoro were found by rangers in Charara National Park near Lake Kariba in northwestern Zimbabwe, the country's Sunday Mail reported. Authorities say Manjoro and his accomplice, Noluck Tafuruka, 29, went into the park with two rifles looking for elephants when one of the animals apparently attacked. Tafuruka and another man, Godfrey Shonge, 52, were reportedly arrested in connection with the incident.

An international ban on the ivory trade was established in 1989, but poachers still strip elephants of their ivory tusks to sell on lucrative global markets, with a high demand coming from East Asia. The Wildlife Conservation Society estimates that some 25,000 African elephants are killed each year. Last week, a group of armed poachers raided a protected sanctuary in the Central African Republic and killed at least 26 elephants.