When I hear and see things like this I can only shake my head in shame. Who are we to do this? What gives man the right to destroy other species for any reason, let alone profit? Whales, dolphins, elephants, buffalo, tigers, gray wolves etc., etc. Has the human brain counted for anything other than a mass weapon of destruction for hundreds of species and now the planet itself?

We consider ourselves the most advanced and successful species on the planet. We brag about our technical accomplishments, our advances in science and our horrific ability to kill anything as well as each other. We've gone mad and our egos sustain the madness with unabashed self congratulations. If only other species could talk, if only.

BASTARD!!!!!

why do people do this? it makes me feel very angry at people who hunt for the trophy. you should only hunt for food. what is wrong with these people?!

This is an obscene disgrace! This is where the worship of money leads, no doubt. DEATH to laissez-faire!, DEATH to crony-capitalism!

When the Predators come to our planet for fun,
They will show us these pictures then tell us to run.

This is deplorable and the US needs to do something about it to put an end to it. This can't go on.

To hunt any species to its extinction is the height of evil. And that picture...are we truly too far gone?

Keep your eyes on Joseph Kony.....he's the bad guy.

this is so sad!!

this makes me feel sick...we have let ourselves be separated from that which we need most and it brings us all continuing grief and pain.

The State Department had better get this under control very soon. Makes one wonder what other abuses Uganda's military is perpetrating.

Killing animals is one of the easiest things to do for some folks. The militarization of the planet with high tech weaponry makes it even easier.
I sometimes think humans won't stop until they've killed every living thing on the planet.

I am outraged and sickened by this. :(

http://lionguardians.wildlifedirect.org/files/2009/01/dead-elephant.jpg

A quote from the article in the New York Times:

"ARAMBA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo — In 30 years of fighting poachers, Paul Onyango had never seen anything like this. Twenty-two dead elephants, including several very young ones, clumped together on the open savanna, many killed by a single bullet to the top of the head.

There were no tracks leading away, no sign that the poachers had stalked their prey from the ground. The tusks had been hacked away, but none of the meat — and subsistence poachers almost always carve themselves a little meat for the long walk home.

Several days later, in early April, the Garamba National Park guards spotted a Ugandan military helicopter flying very low over the park, on an unauthorized flight, but they said it abruptly turned around after being detected. Park officials, scientists and the Congolese authorities now believe that the Ugandan military — one of the Pentagon’s closest partners in Africa — killed the 22 elephants from a helicopter and spirited away more than a million dollars’ worth of ivory.

“They were good shots, very good shots,” said Mr. Onyango, Garamba’s chief ranger. “They even shot the babies. Why? It was like they came here to destroy everything.”

Africa is in the midst of an epic elephant slaughter. Conservation groups say poachers are wiping out tens of thousands of elephants a year, more than at any time in the previous two decades, with the underground ivory trade becoming increasingly militarized.