The World Factbook. ShowIntroduction :: CHAD Panel - Collapsed Chad, part of France's African holdings until 1960, endured three decades of civil warfare, as well as invasions by Libya, before peace was restored in 1990. The government eventually drafted a democratic constitution and held flawed presidential elections in 1996 and 2001. In 1998, a rebellion broke out in northern Chad, which has sporadically flared up despite several peace agreements between the government and insurgents. In June 2005, President Idriss DEBY held a referendum successfully removing constitutional term limits and won another controversial election in 2006.
Sporadic rebel campaigns continued throughout 2006 and 2007. The capital experienced a significant insurrection in early 2008, but has had no significant rebel threats since then, in part due to Chad's 2010 rapprochement with Sudan, which previously used Chadian rebels as proxies. Www.mychandlerschools.org/cms/lib6/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/2393/AP HUMGEO SYLLABUS2013.pdf. Www.dentonisd.org/cms/lib/tx21000245/centricity/Domain/535/Historical_Investigation_Guide.pdf. Chad - Poachers Slaughter More Than 80 Elephants. Elephants, rangers face growing threats in Chad. Rangers in Chad's Zakouma National Park face a serious threat from poaching operationsIn recent years, park rangers have been executed in their line of work90% of the park's elephants have been slaughtered for their ivory Poachers have come from neighboring Sudan; now the CAR war presents a new threat Zakouma National Park, Chad (CNN) -- Rian Labuschagne pilots his single-engine bush plane low over a herd of elephants, his trained eye scanning for calves.
He's spotted 21 in just the last few months. "See that baby drinking? " he asks, as he dips the left wing over a watering hole. It's something Chad's Zakouma National Park has been without for nearly five years. Large-scale Sudanese poaching operations from across the border have decimated the park's elephants. In the span of just a few years they slaughtered 90% of the park's elephant population. Zakouma is both blessed and cursed by its geography. Zakouma's elephant population has been decimated by poaching. A lone marker in Heban. African Parks Partners With Chad to Combat Elephant Poaching. In a week of wildlife conservation announcements coming out of New York, including CGI’s commitment to spend $80 million fighting elephant poaching, and the merge between Rare and The Nature Conservancy, the nonprofit organization African Parks (AP) added its news to the mix: African Parks is partnering with the government of Chad to launch the first national program to combat elephant poaching in central Africa.
This is no minor undertaking. The country of Chad has been absolutely ravaged by the illegal trade in ivory. At an event this week at The River Club in Manhattan, hosted by African Parks, Chad’s President Idriss Deby Itno said his country “has been struck more openly and severely by this new poaching wave than the other countries in the Sub region.” According to AP, 50 years ago Chad was teeming with 50,000 elephants; today the number is down to 1,200.
African Parks was founded in 2003, and has a distinctive mission within the crowded galaxy of wildlife conservation groups.