UPDATE: The deaths of more than 330 elephants in Botswana this year were caused by toxins from algae, officials said Monday.
The elephant carcasses that first detected in May were found in the Okavango Delta, a wetland near the Namibian border.
The department’s principal veterinary officer Mmadi Reuben told the same conference that there were, however, still many unanswered questions. “Our latest tests have detected cyanobacterial neurotoxins to be the cause of deaths. These are bacteria found in water,” Reuben said. “However we have many questions still to be answered such as why the elephants only and why that area only. We have a number of hypotheses we are investigating.”In neighboring Zimbabwe, more than 20 elephant carcasses were discovered near the country’s biggest game park and authorities suspect they succumbed to a bacterial infection.but Botswana, home to almost a third of the continent’s elephants, has seen numbers grow to around 130,000.
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