{"id":170167,"date":"2026-07-31T02:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/170167\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T02:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:35:56","slug":"kenya-des-tomates-empoisonnees-suspectees-detre-a-lorigine-de-la-mort-de-15-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/170167\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya\u00a0: Des tomates empoisonn\u00e9es suspect\u00e9es d\u2019\u00eatre \u00e0 l\u2019origine de la mort de 15 \u00e9l\u00e9phants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le myst\u00e8re entourant la mort de quinze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/elephant\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00e9l\u00e9phants<\/a> dans le sud du <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/monde\/kenya\/\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenya<\/a> semble d\u00e9sormais r\u00e9solu. Les pachydermes auraient \u00e9t\u00e9 empoisonn\u00e9s par des tomates contamin\u00e9es au cyanure, provenant d\u2019exploitations agricoles situ\u00e9es \u00e0 proximit\u00e9 du parc national\u00a0d\u2019Amboseli, ont indiqu\u00e9 les autorit\u00e9s mercredi, rapporte <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kenya-elephants-poisoning-cyanide-16472f80a3b345db6d476fc3bf4ef57b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\">Associated Press<\/a> (AP).<\/p>\n<p>Le Kenya Wildlife Service, l\u2019agence publique charg\u00e9e de la conservation de la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/planete\/nature\/\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nature<\/a>, avait pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment indiqu\u00e9 que dix \u00e9l\u00e9phants pr\u00e9sentaient des signes de paralysie partielle avant de mourir. Les cinq autres animaux avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 retrouv\u00e9s inanim\u00e9s, sans que leurs sympt\u00f4mes n\u2019aient pu \u00eatre observ\u00e9s. Les carcasses de ces derniers avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 partiellement d\u00e9vor\u00e9es par des charognards, relate <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kenya-amboseli-elephants-dead-3d0c72868806fd8e96e02f0319cc3b92\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\">AP<\/a>. La plupart des \u00e9l\u00e9phants d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9s \u00e9taient des femelles et des \u00e9l\u00e9phanteaux. Un seul m\u00e2le figurait parmi les victimes.<\/p>\n<p>Des agriculteurs d\u00e9j\u00e0 suspect\u00e9s d\u2019empoisonner les pachydermes<\/p>\n<p>Mercredi, les autorit\u00e9s n\u2019ont pas\u00a0pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 comment les tomates avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 contamin\u00e9es. Avant ce drame, des <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/agriculteurs\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agriculteurs<\/a> avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 soup\u00e7onn\u00e9s d\u2019empoisonner d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9ment les \u00e9l\u00e9phants afin de les emp\u00eacher de manger leurs cultures.\u00a0Le directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du Kenya Wildlife Service a expliqu\u00e9\u00a0que des analyses de laboratoire pr\u00e9liminaires avaient r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 la pr\u00e9sence de cyanure. Cette substance chimique est \u00ab\u00a0hautement toxique, en particulier pour les \u00e9l\u00e9phants\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019agence a pr\u00e9venu que la contamination pourrait avoir des cons\u00e9quences plus larges en raison de la pr\u00e9sence de b\u00e9tail pr\u00e8s du parc national.\u00a0Elle a toutefois soulign\u00e9 que\u00a0les substances toxiques trouv\u00e9es chez les \u00e9l\u00e9phants morts ne pr\u00e9sentent aucune menace imm\u00e9diate pour la sant\u00e9 humaine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le myst\u00e8re entourant la mort de quinze \u00e9l\u00e9phants dans le sud du Kenya semble d\u00e9sormais r\u00e9solu. 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