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5 lions poisoned in Serengeti

Category: Masai Mara, Pesticides, carbofuran, lions | Date: Sep 18 2009 | By: paula

Dear Friends, this report is just in from Arusha from a colleague. We will get photos shortly.

“I met a guy who confessed that Furadan has been recently (2weeks ago)
used to kill 5 lions around Serengeti. TANAPA are investigating and
they have taken samples of the dead lions to establish the actual
poison. The story was; the lions killed a giraffe near a maasai boma.
The Maasai, fearing the lions would attack their livestock after
finishing the giraffe, they laced the remaining giraffe carcass with
furadan. That evening the lions came back and 5 of them were found
dead near there the following morning!! There is a lot of Furadan in
Arusha. I bought a 500 gms from the Tanzania farmers association shop
at an equivalent of $15. Kisamo (TANAPA) promised he would share the
lab findings of the samples once they are out. He will also send us
the photos when he gets them from the guys who went to the ground when
the incident occurred! I am sure we won’t win the battle if Tanzania
still has the furadan distributed by JUANCO from Nairobi.”

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2 Responses to “5 lions poisoned in Serengeti”

sauwah, on 18 Sep 2009

this is so disguisting to me because the lions did not harm the livestock at all. yet due to fear, these guys chose to use cheap poison to end their precious lives and put these lions thru much pain and suffering before their death.

when will any one pressure the company that manufactures this cheap and odorless poison to hike the price and make such poison not attractive to felines or other predators/birds? and tanzania government should be and must weakened up! and these Masaai fellows need some education by our lion guardians and predator aware warriors.

Annie, on 21 Sep 2009

So awful!

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