Mozambique: No Good Reason for People to Fall Victim to Animals
4 August 2009



Guro — Mozambican President Armando Guebuza said on Monday that it makes no sense that Mozambicans are still being killed by wild animals.

Addressing an extraordinary session of the Manica provincial government, as part of his five day working visit to this central province, he said that people must find ways to solve this problem.

"There is no good reason for people to continue dying, victims of wild animals", declared Guebuza, reacting to information showing an increase in the number of people killed by wild animals in Manica.

Manica provincial governor Mauricio Vieira said that 108 cases of attacks by wild animals were reported during the first half of this year, resulting in 18 deaths, compared with seven deaths reported in the same period of 2008.


The animals that cause most problems are crocodiles, elephants, and hippopotamus, but there are also reported cases of attacks by lions, buffaloes and monkeys, as well as snake bites.

Vieira's report confirms that this problem has been worsening in Manica. In 2008, 12 people were killed by wild animals in the districts of Tambara, Guro, Macossa, Machaze, Mossurize, Manica, Sussundenga, and Barue, compared with five victims in 2007.

Vieira said that to mitigate the problem, the government trained 66 community wardens, set up six brigades to defend people and property, trained five community hunters, and distributed 13 fire arms.

The government also created 13 community management committees in the most affected areas, and decided to gun down wild animals causing problem, when necessary.

Ah hell, have them move to the U.S.! On second thought, it might be more dangerous for them in New York City, Washington D.C. or Atlanta! What's wrong with some natural selection? After all, you can't wipe out the crocs, hippos, lions. . . .

With the desemenation of Chuck Norris videos on Youtube you'd think by now they'd be able to handle wildlife! Seriously come on!!!

UEG,

"After all, you can't wipe out the crocs, hippos, lions. . . ."

You may want to relay that message to Kenya apparently their laboring under the gross misaprahention that they can infact do so!

Brett

True, very true.