President Robert Mugabe: Zimbabwe has maintained robust elephant populations compared with other countries on the continent. But economic penalties imposed by the U.S. and Europe have led Zimbabweans with ties to President Robert Mugabe's ruling party to find new methods of making money. , according to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC. Zimbabwe's embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment. Political and military elites are seizing protected areas in one of Africa's last bastions for elephants, putting broad swaths of Zimbabwe at risk of becoming fronts for ivory poaching, according to a nonprofit research group's report that examines government collusion in wildlife trafficking. 91 elephants poisoned by poachers in Zimbabwe The report, set for release Monday, says they may be turning to elephants' highly valued ivory tusks.
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