“South Sudan Animals Decimated as Troops Fuel Poaching Crisis”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/wildlife-decimated-in-south-sudan-as-troops-fuel-poaching-crisis

South Sudanese soldiers have killed wild animals for food and financial gain during the country’s 14-month civil war, ignoring requests to halt the practice, the head of the national wildlife service said.

Government troops, rebel forces and civilians have targeted animals such as Mongalla gazelle, white-eared Kob and tiang, also known as topi, antelope, Major-General Philip Chol Majak, director-general of South Sudan’s wildlife service, said in a Feb. 2 interview in the capital, Juba.