BOTSWANA PROBES DEATHS OF 350 TUSKERS

GABORONE: The southern

Africa country of Botswana is struggling to investigate the reasons for the mysterious deaths of over 350 elephants in the popular Okavango Delta nature reserve. Authorities in Botswana, home to a third of Africa’s declining elephant population, are struggling to send samples for analysis to international agencies to determine the cause of the deaths due to the lack of flights because of a lockdown. The deaths, which experts say is a conservation disaster, were first spotted in May.