Crusader Who Saved Elephants From Poachers Is Shot Dead in Tanzania
Source: New York Times
By CHRISTINE HAUSER
AUG. 18, 2017
Wayne Lotter, a wildlife conservationist from South Africa, was fatally shot this week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he had worked to stop poaching and the illegal ivory trade, the organization he helped found said.
Mr. Lotter was killed in a district of the east African countrys capital late on Wednesday, the PAMS Foundation said in its statement on Facebook on Thursday. It said the police in Tanzania were investigating. A report in The Guardian said that Mr. Lotter, 51, was being driven from the airport to his hotel when his taxi was stopped by another vehicle. Two men opened the door to his car, and one of them shot him, the newspaper reported.
It was not immediately clear from investigators whether Mr. Lotter was killed because of his work. He was one of the founders in 2009 of the PAMS Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports antipoaching efforts in Tanzania through the countrys National and Transnational Serious Crimes Investigation Unit, which has been at the forefront in combating poachers and arresting suspects.
Mr. Lotter worked as a ranger as a young man in South Africa before he moved to Tanzania, where he became a leading force in the fight against poaching, the foundation said. It said his work included training village game scouts in every corner of the country, as part of his belief that communities were the best protectors of the continents animals.
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chowder66
(9,094 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I hope they catch the murderers....
turbinetree
(24,738 posts)lamp_shade
(14,850 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)I hope they get the evil maggots who did this!
spooky3
(34,510 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)The trash and filth of the world kill good people.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)byronius
(7,406 posts)Elephant poaching should be a life sentence.
BigmanPigman
(51,648 posts)in the article. Maybe their heads will be trophies sent to Bannon's for him to use on his wall at Breibart.
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)maxsolomon
(33,446 posts)The money behind the Ivory trade did this. The gunmen are irrelevant.
Hieronymus
(6,039 posts)RiverStone
(7,228 posts)May they catch the murderous and cowardly thugs.
LakeArenal
(28,863 posts)Peace. Wayne Lotter.
catbyte
(34,507 posts)R.I.P., sir. You are a hero.
orangecrush
(19,661 posts)The good ones go down