South Africa: Kruger Elephant Poaching Incident Is Not 'The First in More Than Ten Years'

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Has South Africa's Kruger National Park lost only one elephant to poachers "in well over ten years", as claimed in a recent SANParks press release? The claim is incorrect. Researched by Julian Rademeyer for AFRICA CHECK.

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