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It is commendable that even though they are starving, they are not eating the animals in the park on a routine basis. I don't know if I would in that situation.
Are there alternate irrigation processes available that can be implemented in a short time?
On 04/23/10, "Nkosi, Kedi" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> We apologise for these images but they speak more
> eloquently than any politician of the plight of Zimbabwe's starving people
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> saddening sight - a magnificent bull elephant struck down in his old age.
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> The carcass provided a vital
> source of food, and hundreds of desperate villagers in the Gonarezhou National
> Park descended on the dead animal within minutes of its discovery. Using
> machetes, axes and knives made from tin cans they set upon the six-ton carcass,
> which was found deep in scrubland.
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> Fallen giant: The
> corpse of the bull elephant lies undisturbed in deep scrubland in Gonarezhou
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> The desperate descend:
> Within minutes, starving villagers arrive at the carcass
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> villagers battled to strip chunks of flesh from the animal and drag them away
> to feed their families. It took just one hour and 47 minutes for the 13ft-tall
> elephant to be reduced to a skeleton. Every part was used for food, even the
> trunk and ears. The bones of the 70-year-old animal were taken to boil for soup
> and within 24 hours nothing was left but a blood-stained patch of earth. The
> images are undeniably shocking. But they illustrate the terrible lengths to
> which Zimbabweans are forced to go just to survive under Robert Mugabe.
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> warned the situation in the former British colony is 'critical' with
> 2.17million - one in four of the population - requiring urgent food aid.
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> Soon, the villagers are fighting to get the urgently-needed meat
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> Emma Kundishora, of the
> Zimbabwe Red Cross Society, said: 'In some parts of the country, the food
> situation is as bad as many of our volunteers and staff have ever seen.'
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> deteriorate further this year following the collapse of agriculture caused by
> President Mugabe's violent seizures of thousands of white-owned farms since
> 2000.
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> Erratic rain has also
> damaged crops of corn. Harvests could produce just 500,000-tons this year, less
> than a third of the amount required to feed the nation.
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> effective: Nothing goes to waste, with the skin, trunk and ears all removed
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> Starving:
> Zimbabweans grapple with each other as they set upon the elephant to get meat
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> less than two hours, only bones remain. Even these will later be taken
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> blood-spattered villager and, right, the spot where the bull elephant lay is
> completely cleared just 24 hours after it was found
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> 'The women formed a ring
> around the elephant and the men stood inside, fighting and stabbing each other
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