Stop Wildlife Poisoning

Category: carbofuran | Date: Jun 17 2009 | By: Martin Odino

The post Elephants Poisoned With Furadan in Tanzania just makes sense with Kenyan’s providing a vivid Furadan poisoning illustration yet again.

The photograph above shows cabbages picked on elephant trails in a place in Kenya called Mweiga in the neighbourhood of Abardares National Park. A cavity is bored by the farmer(s) into the vegetables and Furadan granules poured into the cavity then set along the trails that the giant mammals pass. Usually the elephants destroy crops in the  in the park or its neighbourhood and the farmers retaliate by putting these cabbages on the elephant paths way into the park before the herbivores reach the shambas (cultivated plots). The elephants then eat the cabbages unaware of the Furadan in the veges and get intoxicated but so does the whole lot of other herbivores from the pack that get to eat the poison laden cabbages.

Tags: Aberdares National Park, furadan