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Hundreds of elephants found in south Sudan island

Posted May 29, 2007 at 02:35PM by Karl B. Listed in: Animals and Wildlife Tags: Reuters, Sudan
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Reuters reports that international wildlife experts have come upon a treeless island that is home to hundreds of wild elephants in the swamps of south Sudan. "We flew out of a cloud, and there they were. "It was like something out of Jurassic Park," said Tom Catterson, who works on a U.S.-funded environment program in south Sudan.

The elephants have apparently managed to avoid unchecked hunting during more than 20 years of Sudan's north-south civil war. "It's not that good a habitat for elephants, but they're free of people shooting at them," said Catterson. "You and I wouldn't stand a chance in there between the mosquitoes and crocodiles. And you'd get lost."

The extent of damage the war has caused to Sudan's animal population is only now being discovered. To help protect the elephants from poachers, environmentalists have chosen to keep the location of the island secret. Environmentalists are also hoping to find other elephant herds or other groups of animals in areas unreachable by poachers and other animal hunters.

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