Selous Game Reserve: Famous for tourism and elephant poaching

Covering 50,000 square kilometers, Selous Game Reserve has badly hit by poaching, losing almost 2,500 elephants per year, WWF Tanzania Country Office said.

Covering 50,000 square kilometers, Selous Game Reserve has badly hit by poaching, losing almost 2,500 elephants per year, WWF Tanzania Country Office said.

Selous Game Reserve has lost almost 90 percent of its elephant population from 115,000 in 1975 to just slightly 15,000 counted in 2015), WWF report said, quoting the latest elephant census carried out there.


The report seen by eTN however, said that Selous Game Reserve is famous for tourism, generating over US$ 6 million from tourists visiting its wildlife resources.

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