At least 123 vultures have died in South Africa’s flagship national park after eating the carcass of an elephant that was poisoned by poachers with agricultural pesticides.

AV Cape Town coordinator Chad Cupido explained ... about “animal exploitation”. “These animals are not treated well; they are given hormones and live in very bad conditions and then they are killed.

Animal welfare officers faced the grisly task of euthanizing more than 350,000 chickens by hand after they were left starving and cannibalizing each other.