Amuru district (Oeganda) aangevallen door 50 olifanten uit Nimule in Zuid Soedan

50 elephants attack Amuru

29-12-2009 By Sam Lawino (email the author), The Daily Monitor, Uganda


Christmas celebration were disrupted at Bibia in Atyak Sub-county after about 50 herds of elephants invaded the area. Amuru District speaker, Mr Micheal Lakony, said on Sunday that the elephants came from Nimule in South Sudan and destroyed crops in several gardens.

“People did not sleep and Christmas became like a funeral,” he said. He said the attempt to meet Sudan Consulate in Gulu to find a solution for the animals was futile. Atyak lies in the corridor where elephants from Murchison Falla National Park cross to and from Sudan.

The Sub county chairman, Mr John Bosco Ochan, told Daily Monitor that the youth who are trained to protect residents from elephant attacks are incapacitated.

Youth ill equipped
“The youth trained by the Park authorities are unable to chase away elephants without guns,” Mr Ochan said. He added that the animals are still marauding in the area preventing residents from accessing their gardens.

Early this month, residents of Coo-Rom village in Koch Goma Sub-county feasted on an elephant they killed after Park rangers suffocated it with chloroform.

(Bron: http://www.monitor.co.ug/)