AP, Johannesburg :A conservation group working in Tanzania says a British helicopter pilot has been shot and killed by elephant poachers who firedon his aircraft. The Friedkin Conservation Fund says in a statement that Roger Gower was shot on Friday while flying on a joint operation with Tanzanian wildlife authorities who were trying to track and arrest the poachers.The Texas-based group, which oversees a number of wildlife areas in Tanzania, says Gower’s death highlights the “appalling risk” of protecting wildlife in a country whose elephant population has been slaughtered in large numbers.
