Central africa to mobilize up to 1,000 soldiers to save its elephants
Yaoundé, Cameroon (25 March 2013) Central African states on Saturday said they would mobilize up to 1,000 soldiers and law-enforcement officials to immediately start joint military operations to protect the region’s last remaining savanna elephants, threatened by Sudanese poachers on a killing spree in the region. “We recommend the mobilization of all defense and security forces in the affected countries” to stop these poachers, eight[1]