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Authorities arrest poachers

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zambian wildlife authorities have apprehended more than 3,000 poachers and confiscated a total of 3,140 guns, which included military weapons, between 1996 and 1999, media reports said at the weekend.

    The reports said a total of 2,140 convictions were secured, which raised US $700,000 in a campaign against commercial poaching in the country’s 19 national parks and 35 game management areas.

    The campaign, initiated in 1993 with the training of 1,981 wildlife officers, has also led to an increase in the elephant population from 9,000 to the current 35,000, added the reports, attributing the increase to the 10-year international ban on trade in ivory.

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