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Botswana Rules out Pesticides and Pathogens as Cause for Elephant Deaths
- Poisons could be behind the demise of about 300 pachyderms
- Elephant carcasses indicate animals died sudden deaths
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A mystery over what killed hundreds of elephants in Botswana, which has the world’s biggest population of the animals, remains unsolved with the government ruling out pesticides, agrochemicals and pathogens as possible reasons for their demise.
Tests done on samples that were taken from some of about 300 carcasses found in northwest Botswana and sent to laboratories in Zimbabwe and South Africa for examination proved inconclusive.