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Satao: omagiul martiriilor noastre

Satao (2020) este un volum care se remarcă prin câteva poeme bune, majoritatea scrise într-un registru grav, în cel mai bun caz melancolic. Satao este numele unui elefant care a fost ucis de braconieri “pentru a potoli cererea avidă de fildeș din țări îndepărtate”; această temă, a sacrificiului exagerat în schimbul recompenselor mărunte, reunește într-un fel poemele din volum. Scenele cotidiene…

Satao: omagiul martiriilor noastre

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Los furtivos matan a 'Satao II', el elefante emblemático de Kenia

Los furtivos matan a ‘Satao II’, el elefante emblemático de Kenia

Fotografía del cadáver de Satao II – TSAVO.

“Satao 2 ha muerto”. Como si de un personaje ilustre se tratase, Africa Geografic, un blog especializado en naturaleza salvaje, difunde y condena la muerte de uno de los elefantes más emblemáticos de Kenia, publica elmundo.es, a manos de furtivos. (more…)

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Filipa Antunes January_2016, Sátão, Portugal

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Satao, a 50-year-old elephant was killed by poachers in May.

This is some of the last footage of the majestic bull elephant that was taken by the crew documenting the Great Elephant Census.

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[iamsleeping]

I think a lot about Satao – but what brings a smile, is the thought that somewhere out there, unknown and unnoticed, is a young elephant, whose tiny tusks are an inch or two longer than others in his age group. We’ve probably driven past him countless times, seeing him merely as a calf in a female herd. We may not notice him for another three decades, but there will come a time when his tusks, like those of his father, start to glint through the heat haze – and mark him out as a future giant ‘tusker’. I just hope that his world will be a safer place.

Mark Deeble; Satao - the legacy

Yes, I am still upset about this. Not just about Satao, but about any and all animals that are killed in this way. 

[jeromestarkey]

There are a dozen tuskers left in Kenya: the spectacular bull elephants, whose tusks fetch poachers $1 million each, are on the brink of extinction. And five weeks ago, the most iconic of them all, 45-year-old Satao, was killed

Towards the end of May, when heavy rains slaked a remote and arid corner of Tsavo East, Kenya’s largest national park, more than 1,000 elephants marched through the bush to feast on fresh leaves and grass.

Bare trees and silvery shrubs, scorched by the tropical winds, turned green overnight. Sparse, barley-coloured grasses bloomed into pasture. The elephants gorged themselves. It had been raining heavily for a week.

Yet of all the lumbering giants lured to the edge of Tsavo East, one elephant stood out. Satao was one of the world’s last great “tuskers”. A 45-year-old bull, around 12ft tall at the shoulder, he boasted enormous, sweeping tusks that curved in like a ballerina’s arms. They were so long they touched the ground; the undersides had been polished smooth where they rubbed along in front of him. (Read more...)