Maybe Liberals Will Find This Offensive

Robert Mugabe is one of the world's worst despots. But you'll rarely find any criticism of his tyranny in the NY Times or then Washington Post. CBS, NBS, ABS and CNN-BS don't bother either.
But, now he's causing an endangered species die-off and creating environmental damage.

The scale of the devastation is disputed. According to environmental activists, 250 elephants and hundreds of other animals have died from starvation, thirst and blackleg—an infectious disease caused by unusually arid conditions and stress—over the past two months. Zimbabwe's minister of Tourism, Francis Nehma, acknowledges a problem in Hwange, but says that only 40 elephants and 53 buffalo have died. Virtually everyone agrees that more needs to be done to stave off a larger catastrophe. Over the last month, a few private individuals have been making emergency runs to supply the park with needed fuel and spare parts. The first heavy rains fell last week, alleviating thirst but creating new problems: many of the dry pans have turned into mud holes, trapping sick and weakened animals in the sticky muck. Barry Wolhuter, who manages a Hwange safari camp called The Hide, says: " [The] national parks [department] just doesn't have its act together."