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Animals: 115 elephants die in Zimbabwe park

At least 115 elephants have died at a Zimbabwe game reserve since September due to a shortage of food and water. Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority spokesperson Tinashe Farawo said water reservoirs were drying up in the Hwange National Park following a drought this year. Farawo said 105 elephants died in September and last month in the vast game reserve, while 10 more have died this month. Hwange National Park is located in the dry western region of the country, and has the biggest population of elephants in the country. He said authorities were currently sinking boreholes as deep as 400 meters to try to get water. With more than 84,000 elephants, Zimbabwe has the second-biggest elephant population in the world after neighboring Botswana.

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