More Than 150 Vultures Poisoned to Death, Seemingly for 'Muti' DeutscheWelle: Africa
VulPro's founder Kerri Wolter told DW that around 100 dead birds were found in the Kruger National Park in South Africa and around 50 in Botswana's northern Chobe district.
Wildlife poachers sometimes poison vultures because their presence in the skies near animal corpses can alert rangers to their illegal activities. In these cases, the birds' heads and feet were missing, as usual, but the killers had apparently plundered more from the vulture carcasses they left stricken.
"The organs are definitely for muti or witchcraft or whatever you wanna call it, but we haven't seen that before. I don't know what they use it for. We've tried to get answers back. The traditional healers won't give us the answers."
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